{"id":355,"date":"2010-01-21T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T19:14:02","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2010\/01\/the-hunger-games.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: spoilers (if you can&#8217;t guess the ending by chapter 2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0439023483\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Hunger Games<\/a> is the first book in the latest sub-adult series to hit it big with audiences of all ages.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize that Hunger Games was considered Young Adult until I went to look for its sequel and had to find my way over to that section.\u00a0 Compared to the early Harry Potters, which were clearly written for children, or Twilight, which has unquestionable appeal for teenage girls, Hunger Games seemed pretty adult to me.\u00a0 Yes, the protagonists were children\/teens, but the writing level was up to adult speeds and the themes are pretty grown-up.\u00a0 Except that, as with Twilight, no one is getting it on.<\/p>\n<p>My only gripe with Hunger Games is that it&#8217;s monumentally predictable.\u00a0 That she will win, we can guess.\u00a0 That somehow he&#8217;s not going to die either, we can assume.\u00a0 That they&#8217;ll fall in love?\u00a0 Well, she managed to surprise me there only by ending the book without a decision.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize going into this book that it was a series.\u00a0 I now see the impending love triangle, but I also see a lot of potential for some more serious themes.\u00a0 Future installments won&#8217;t just be a glimpse into the future of reality TV.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing where this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: spoilers (if you can&#8217;t guess the ending by chapter 2) The Hunger Games is the first book in the latest sub-adult series to hit it big with audiences of all ages.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize that Hunger Games was considered Young Adult until I went to look for its sequel and had to find my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,18],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-kids","category-scififantasy","tag-hunger-games-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}