{"id":2979,"date":"2011-12-20T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?page_id=2979"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:03:54","slug":"infinity-ring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?page_id=2979","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Ring Book 5: Cave of Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2949\" title=\"Infinity Ring\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg\" width=\"682\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web.jpg 682w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iRing_logo_web-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a>History is broken, and a long-feared Cataclysm seems imminent. The capital of the United States is Boston. Lincoln\u2019s face is nowhere to be seen on Mount Rushmore. Everyone\u2019s buzzing about the French royal wedding. And an international group of men and women known as the SQ is more powerful than kings, richer than nations, and more fearsome than armies. When best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste stumble upon the key to time travel \u2013 a hand-held device known as the Infinity Ring \u2013 they\u2019re swept up in a centuries-long secret war for the fate of mankind. Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone completely, and disastrously, off-course. Now it\u2019s up to Dak, Sera, and teenage Hystorian-in-training Riq to travel back in time to fix the \u201cGreat Breaks\u201d\u2026 and to save Dak\u2019s missing parents while they\u2019re at it.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/infinityring.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Infinity Ring<\/em> website<\/span><\/a> for the first three books, out now.<\/p>\n<p>My installment, <em>Cave of Wonders<\/em> (Book 5), takes place during the Golden Age of Baghdad, on the eve of its destruction by Mongols. It releases September 1st, 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IRcover5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3543\" alt=\"IRcover5\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IRcover5-711x1024.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IRcover5-711x1024.jpg 711w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IRcover5-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IRcover5.jpg 1593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is broken, and a long-feared Cataclysm seems imminent. The capital of the United States is Boston. Lincoln\u2019s face is nowhere to be seen on Mount Rushmore. Everyone\u2019s buzzing about the French royal wedding. And an international group of men and women known as the SQ is more powerful than kings, richer than nations, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":470,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1mtjQ-M3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2979\/revisions\/3988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}