{"id":153,"date":"2009-10-04T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-10-04T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T12:37:46","slug":"christine-bender-perils-and-hardships-unimaginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2009\/10\/04\/christine-bender-perils-and-hardships-unimaginable\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Bender: Perils and Hardships Unimaginable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Features\/Interviews\/christine.bender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"167\" \/>A historian&#8217;s greatest challenge is to convey the excitement and drama of history.\u00a0 This is especially true for more obscure subjects, as the reader doesn&#8217;t already come with some emotional attachment.\u00a0 But this is exactly where Christine Bender excels.\u00a0 By using fiction as her vehicle to explore historical events, Christine is able to delve into the hearts and minds of her subjects, imagining how they thought and felt during some of history&#8217;s most exciting and crucial times.\u00a0 Using her own Basque heritage as inspiration, she focuses on the adventures of Basques during the Age of Discovery, when the world was being explored to extents previously unheard of.\u00a0 Her most recent book, <em>The Whaler&#8217;s Forge<\/em>, examines that time when Basques first found the North American coast in their search for new hunting grounds.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/Features\/Interviews\/christine.bender.php\">this interview<\/a>, Christine describes how she chooses her subjects and how she puts herself into their shoes to explore both their character and the world around them, and she even gives us a glimpse of the subject of her next novel.<\/p>\n<p>Eskerrik asko, Christine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historian&#8217;s greatest challenge is to convey the excitement and drama of history.\u00a0 This is especially true for more obscure subjects, as the reader doesn&#8217;t already come with some emotional attachment.\u00a0 But this is exactly where Christine Bender excels.\u00a0 By using fiction as her vehicle to explore historical events, Christine is able to delve into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,13,15,19],"tags":[134,135,68,85,136,137],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-interviews","category-people","tag-challenge-the-wind","tag-christine-bender","tag-elcano","tag-history","tag-sails-of-fortune","tag-the-whalers-forge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-2t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}