{"id":225,"date":"2012-07-22T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T09:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:44:33","slug":"meet-the-new-heroes-eddie-lacrosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/meet-the-new-heroes-eddie-lacrosse\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The New Heroes: Eddie LaCrosse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/files\/StoneSkinPress\/Eddie_LaCrosse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eddie LaCrosse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pelgranepress.com\/files\/StoneSkinPress\/Eddie_LaCrosse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><em>I tossed enough to cover the bet onto the table. It was Jane\u2019s money, anyway; it seemed appropriate. The jingle got everyone\u2019s attention, especially Miles\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEddie LaCrosse,\u201d he said when he recognized me. \u201cWhat a surprise. What brings you to Four Chops?\u201d He sounded sick to his stomach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou do. Finish this hand, then you\u2019re leaving.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eddie LaCrosse appears in the story &#8220;Finger Stakes&#8221; by Alex Bledsoe, published in The New Hero Volume 2.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bledsoe grew up in West Tennessee, an hour north of Graceland (home of Elvis) and twenty minutes from Nutbush (birthplace of Tina Turner). He now lives in a Wisconsin town famous for mustard and trolls.\u00a0 Find more of his iconic hero Eddie LaCrosse in the novels The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly, Dark Jenny and Wake of the Bloody Angel. You can find him online at <a title=\"Alex Bledsoe\" href=\"http:\/\/alexbledsoe.com\">alexbledsoe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All New Hero artwork by <a title=\"Gene Ha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geneha.com\/\">Gene Ha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Stone Skin Press Kickstarter and more information can be found <a title=\"Stone Skin Press Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1163391850\/stone-skin-press-anthologies-of-new-fiction\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tossed enough to cover the bet onto the table. It was Jane\u2019s money, anyway; it seemed appropriate. The jingle got everyone\u2019s attention, especially Miles\u2019. \u201cEddie LaCrosse,\u201d he said when he recognized me. \u201cWhat a surprise. What brings you to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/meet-the-new-heroes-eddie-lacrosse\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,34],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meet-the-new-heroes","tag-the-new-hero-vol-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}