{"id":2233,"date":"2025-07-31T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:05:27","slug":"e454-with-giles-blunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/e454-with-giles-blunt\/","title":{"rendered":"E454 with GILES BLUNT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey folks! I&#8217;m still hiding out in Toronto. Well, that&#8217;s not true. I&#8217;m cat-sitting for a friend (who&#8217;s been on the show, but that&#8217;s the only clue I&#8217;ll give) and visiting with folks I haven&#8217;t seen in a long while. In the days, though, I&#8217;m writing, working on turning a manuscript from junk into gold. So far we&#8217;re at bronze, which ain&#8217;t such bad progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s show is with author <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilesblunt.com\/\">Giles Blunt<\/a><\/strong>, who many know from his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/series\/JC2\/the-john-cardinal-crime-series\">John Cardinal<\/a><\/strong> crime series. We discuss his latest book, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundurn.com\/books_\/t22117\/a9781459755727-bad-juliet\">Bad Juliet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E454 with Giles Blunt July 31 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2137898061&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! I&#8217;m still hiding out in Toronto. Well, that&#8217;s not true. I&#8217;m cat-sitting for a friend (who&#8217;s been on the show, but that&#8217;s the only clue I&#8217;ll give) and visiting with folks I haven&#8217;t seen in a long while. In the days, though, I&#8217;m writing, working on turning a manuscript from junk into gold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1358,14,23,986,31,20,1356,24,16,1357,13,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-2233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-bad-juliet","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-cfmu","10":"tag-dundurn","11":"tag-fiction","12":"tag-get-lit","13":"tag-giles-blunt","14":"tag-hamilton","15":"tag-jamie-tennant","16":"tag-john-cardinal","17":"tag-literature","18":"tag-mcmaster-university","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}