{"id":965,"date":"2011-02-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=965"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T21:08:32","slug":"carrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Carrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookchickcity.com\/2010\/12\/sign-up-2011-stephen-king-challenge.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5285\/5226242926_4cb5c599ef_o.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My second book for the Stephen King Challenge is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Carrie-ebook\/dp\/B001BANK2I\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Carrie<\/span><\/a>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Carrie<\/span>, as I&#8217;m sure you all know, is the story of a teenage outcast who uses her telekinetic powers to strike back at her tormentors. While I did enjoy the story I found it difficult to read, it wasn&#8217;t the subject matter that I found difficult it was the style. The book is written in an epistolary structure (ooooh, Kate learned a new word!), using excerpts from news clippings and books to help tell the story. I found this style disconnected me from the characters.<\/p>\n<p>To see what others have read for the challenge visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookchickcity.com\/2011\/01\/post-your-reviews-2011-stephen-king.html\">Book Chick City<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second book for the Stephen King Challenge is Carrie. Carrie, as I&#8217;m sure you all know, is the story of a teenage outcast who uses her telekinetic powers to strike back at her tormentors. While I did enjoy the story I found it difficult to read, it wasn&#8217;t the subject matter that I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[4,116],"tags":[118,127,117],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-stephen-king-book-challenge","tag-book-challenge","tag-carrie","tag-stephen-king","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5Xt8g-carrie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}