{"id":31,"date":"2013-02-20T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2019-04-15T21:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:01:18","slug":"the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"goleft\" src=\"\/images\/Robert_Treskillard_500x500.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><b>Robert Treskillard<\/b> is a Celtic enthusiast who holds a B.A. in Biblical &amp; Theological Studies from Bethel University, Minnesota. He has been crafting stories from his early youth, is a software developer, graphic artist, and sometime bladesmith. He and his wife have three adult children and live in the country outside St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p><b>It all began<\/b> when Robert&#8217;s son wanted to learn blacksmithing and sword-making. The two set out to learn the crafts and in the process were told by a relative that they were descended from a Cornish blacksmith.<\/p>\n<p><b>This lit the fire of Robert&#8217;s imagination<\/b>, and so welding his Celtic research to his love of the legends of King Arthur, a book was forged\u2014<b><em>Merlin&#8217;s Blade, book one of The Merlin Spiral<\/em><\/b>, now published by Zondervan \/ BLINK Young Adult Books and available worldwide wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n<p>Robert has won two awards for his writing: <strong>THE 2014 SILVER MOONBEAM AWARD<\/strong> in YA Fantasy\/Sci-Fi, as well as <strong>THE 2013 GRACE AWARD<\/strong> in Speculative Fiction.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" width=\"50%\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/Moonbeam.png\" width=\"250\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" width=\"50%\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/GraceAwards_2013_300px.png\" width=\"260\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Treskillard is a Celtic enthusiast who holds a B.A. in Biblical &amp; Theological Studies from Bethel University, Minnesota. He has been crafting stories from his early youth, is a software developer, graphic artist, and sometime bladesmith. He and his wife have three adult children and live in the country outside St. Louis, Missouri. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}