{"id":148808,"date":"2021-09-01T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=148808"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:33:44","slug":"lofty-issues","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/product\/lofty-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lofty Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question has to be asked: was Alexander <em>really<\/em> a villain? It is worthy of note that Alexander Findlay, one of the few Scottish pipers to survive the horrors of the Great War, returned from the battlefields as an injured hero. After that ordeal, shouldn\u2019t life have become kinder to him? Admittedly, straying from the straight and narrow was wrong, but his untimely death shortly afterwards in the centre of Glasgow seems so unfair: and his legacy? He may have been a hero, but his ill-gotten gains became a shameful family secret. Are the Findlays up for a challenge \u2018from the grave\u2019? Will there really be a worthwhile prize? The story involving six generations of the Findlay family gradually unfolds when Tom visits the loft \u201c<em>looking for the \u2018jeely pan\u2019<\/em>&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148811\" src=\"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-600x445.jpg 600w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-1400x1037.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-400x296.jpg 400w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-1536x1138.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-600x445@2x.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/coverFull-400x296@2x.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mac Black<br \/>\nOut Now<br \/>\nWas Alexander a villain? An injured hero, having survived WW1, dies, unexpectedly, in Glasgow leaving a shameful secret. This\u00a0six generation mystery\u00a0starts when Tom visits the loft \u201clooking for the \u2018jeely pan\u2019&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":148813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[26,28,633,25],"product_tag":[133,207,528,97,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-148808","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_author-mac-black","7":"product_cat-books","8":"product_cat-fiction","9":"product_cat-historical","10":"product_cat-home","11":"product_tag-adult","12":"product_tag-cat","13":"product_tag-humour","14":"product_tag-mac-black","15":"product_tag-relations-and-relationships","16":"product_shipping_class-standard1","17":"pa_rrp-14-1099","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"product-type-simple","24":"add-to-wishlist-after_add_to_cart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/148808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=148808"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=148808"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uppbooks.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=148808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}