{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-11T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-10-02T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:12:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Photo of Christopher Gronlund\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/images\/biophoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"268\" \/><em>Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> is a humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon written by <a title=\"Link to Christopher Gronlund's website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/\">Christopher Gronlund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before becoming a novel, <em>Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> was a screenplay. The screenplay advanced in the <a title=\"Link to the Austin Film Festival website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austinfilmfestival.com\/\">Austin Film Festival&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Heart of the Screenplay&#8221; competition (comedy category), and was considered for development by Castle Rock Entertainment and Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>There were stops along the way Christopher wanted to include in the screenplay, but couldn&#8217;t due to page limitations. Using the screenplay as an outline, Christopher turned <em>Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> into a novel. The novel allowed for a deeper examination of the characters and their adventure. Oh yeah, and more room for fart jokes!<\/p>\n<p><em>Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> is written by the smirking guy in the picture, there&#8211;Christopher Gronlund. He&#8217;s a technical writer and editor by trade, but he&#8217;d rather hop in a car and hit the open road. He loves road trips so much, he&#8217;s even <a title=\"Link to &quot;Highway Heroes,&quot; a Dallas Morning News article about Texas roadside attractions.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/writing2\/hwyheroes.jpg\">written about them<\/a> for the <a title=\"Link to the Dallas Morning News website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>. Christopher blogs at <a title=\"Link to The Juggling Writer.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thejugglingwriter.com\">TheJugglingWriter.com<\/a>. When he&#8217;s not writing, Christopher likes to juggle and spend time with his wife, <a title=\"Link to Cynthia Griffith's website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfgriffith.com\/\">Cynthia Griffith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born on the north side of Chicago, Christopher now lives near a lake in the Dallas\/Ft. Metroplex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors is a humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon written by Christopher Gronlund. Before becoming a novel, Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors was a screenplay. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"no_sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/podcasts\/hcwwpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}