{"id":709,"date":"2024-07-16T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:23:05","slug":"interview-with-michael-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/interview-with-michael-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Michael Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/michaelCooper.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/michaelCooper.png 709w, https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/michaelCooper-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on Crime Wave: Michael Cooper joins me to talk about WAGES OF EMPIRE, a spellbinding WWI adventure. In the summer of 1914, Evan Sinclair is sixteen, living in Utah, and determined to join the war effort as a member of the British Expeditionary Force. He sneaks away from his family and makes it all the way to France, where he sees firsthand the horrors of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is not merely Evan\u2019s coming-of-age story; WAGES OF EMPIRE is a panoramic view of the opening days <a><\/a>of WWI, weaving in scenes of real historical figures and the issues they encounter\u2014chief among them Kaiser Wilhelm and the struggle for control of Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although WAGES OF EMPIRE focuses on events in the Holy Land a hundred years ago, it is eerily relevant to our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available wherever you get your podcasts or use <a href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/WwsGVTHncfs64sWT6\">this link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crime Wave is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/authorsontheairglobalradionetwork?__cft__[0]=AZXhAjauYTkNI3HPvXGTXKz9qI7bn03hOXTI39A7cLhlwi9EQuI9GAIIdraq-ahTQF1gEHYhNvslVVGA3XKQjvSdEO6JjgJ3rlqe4j_fzM0lZCOUwoRM9ZrNY1ihRXZtm352F1Za1S-_VwaxbW1nK7TGS8IHL2eUFrYrCQIIaaT_MzO3kStOz6Iic1-AL5XH1Sw&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Authors on the Air Global Radio Network<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PamStackOriginal?__cft__[0]=AZXhAjauYTkNI3HPvXGTXKz9qI7bn03hOXTI39A7cLhlwi9EQuI9GAIIdraq-ahTQF1gEHYhNvslVVGA3XKQjvSdEO6JjgJ3rlqe4j_fzM0lZCOUwoRM9ZrNY1ihRXZtm352F1Za1S-_VwaxbW1nK7TGS8IHL2eUFrYrCQIIaaT_MzO3kStOz6Iic1-AL5XH1Sw&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Pam Stack<\/a>, CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Crime Wave: Michael Cooper joins me to talk about WAGES OF EMPIRE, a spellbinding WWI adventure. In the summer of 1914, Evan Sinclair is sixteen, living in Utah, and determined to join the war effort as a member of the British Expeditionary Force. He sneaks away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[118,95,116,117],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimewave","tag-adventure","tag-historical","tag-michael-cooper","tag-wages-of-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnarspring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}