{"id":14715,"date":"2026-05-13T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:52:55","slug":"house-of-sand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14715","title":{"rendered":"House of Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/House-of-Sand-Bill-Closeup-1.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the fun things about writing House of Sand was coming up with concept art for the characters I intended to write.  And the environment I planned to write them.  An abandoned fortress in the Syrian desert.  A waystation on the Damascus Road out of Palmyra.  I found maps of the area, pictures of the area, and took the prexisting character art I had, and fed it all into Grok Imagine and asked it to show my characters in the crumbling fortress.  There was a bit more to it than that.  As usual, the AI got a lot more wrong than it got right, and I had to iterate through many prompts to get to the results I wanted.  In the end though, I got some good results that look cool.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Captain William Carter in House of Sand.  I hope you will get to read that story soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun things about writing House of Sand was coming up with concept art for the characters I intended to write. And the environment I planned to write them. An abandoned fortress in the Syrian desert. A waystation[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=14715\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}