{"id":123,"date":"2026-07-01T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:50:20","slug":"the-hell-with-high-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"The Hell with High Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dead are walking. The levees are failing. And Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ben Fenton refuses to go down without a fight. Hurricane McKenna is on the way. It\u2019s the second Category 5 storm to threaten New Orleans in less than a month. But for Ben and the civilians forced to follow his lead, the storm isn\u2019t the most dangerous thing they\u2019ll face. Everyone knows zombies belong in the movies\u2014until the first bite. As the floodwaters rise above the streets of the Big Easy, the undead attack. Ben\u2019s got the skills to survive. Keeping everyone else alive is another story. Zombies bite. People lie. And sometimes, the scariest monsters still have a pulse.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HwHWIcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" style=\"width:320px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HwHWIcon.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HwHWIcon-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H6VP17PL\">Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dead are walking. The levees are failing. And Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ben Fenton refuses to go down without a fight. Hurricane McKenna is on the way. It\u2019s the second Category 5 storm to threaten New Orleans in less than a month. But for Ben and the civilians forced to follow his lead, the storm isn\u2019t the most dangerous thing they\u2019ll face. Everyone knows zombies belong in the movies\u2014until the first bite. As the floodwaters rise above the streets of the Big Easy, the undead attack. Ben\u2019s got the skills to survive. Keeping everyone else alive is another story. Zombies bite. People lie. And sometimes, the scariest monsters still have a pulse. Get it on Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajhalyard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}