{"id":10026,"date":"2025-06-12T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:49:54","slug":"reading-the-backmatter-for-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/reading-the-backmatter-for-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the backmatter for Standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/standoffaudio-696x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/standoffaudio-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/standoffaudio-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/standoffaudio-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/standoffaudio.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got to read the backmatter for the Scholastic audiobook edition of Standoff, book #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. Melanie Gagnon, the producer, arranged for me to do the recording at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton. Thanks, Emma Whale, producer\/engineer for making the session such a great experience! This is the 8th time that I got to read my own backmatter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-705x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-705x1024.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-1057x1536.jpg 1057w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover-1410x2048.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Standoff_FinalCover.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">book 2, release Oct 7, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to read the backmatter for the Scholastic audiobook edition of Standoff, book #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. Melanie Gagnon, the producer, arranged for me to do the recording at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton. Thanks, Emma Whale, producer\/engineer for making the session such a great experience! This is the 8th time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/reading-the-backmatter-for-standoff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading the backmatter for Standoff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[957,864,353,932,7],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-audiobook","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraine","tag-scholastic","tag-standoff","tag-ukrainian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10028,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions\/10028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}