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The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you aren’t cracking up by the end of the first sentence, something is wrong. Yes, it’s an April Fools joke, but if there was a novel, I’d be buying it in an instant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City. If you aren’t cracking up by the end of the first sentence, something is wrong. Yes, it’s an April Fools joke, but if there was a novel, I’d be buying it in an instant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pRIK4-7y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":310,"url":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=310","url_meta":{"origin":468,"position":0},"title":"The Life of Dragons","date":"October 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So, this is a bit of a departure from the pieces I normally put up here. 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