{"id":1031,"date":"2011-12-28T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2011-12-28T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:43:23","slug":"book-16-of-52-catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/book-16-of-52-catching-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 16 (of 52) \u2013 Catching Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1032\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Catching-Fire-Hunger-Games-Book\/dp\/043902353X\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1325122146&amp;sr=8-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1032 \" title=\"200px-Catching_fire\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/200px-Catching_fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Book two of the Hunger Games trilogy returns the reader, and Katniss Everdeen, to the arena as the next Hunger Games tributes are to be selected from previous winners.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to Katniss, her defiance in the previous games has caused some unrest in the other districts, and she is now the symbol around which a revolution is being forged.<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Collins returns us to Panem, and a familiar, yet completely different setting for the next Hunger Games, setting up a final confrontation in the final book of the trilogy that has the fate of a country, and one young woman, hanging in the balance.\u00a0 I hope to get to book 3 before the film debuts in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>And, with that, we wrap up the 2011 52 books in\u00a052 weeks challenge.\u00a0 Once again, I have fallen far short of the goal, but I did greatly improve my output from last year.\u00a0 Assuming I continue to double my reading output every year, I will finally surpass the 52 book mark sometime in late 2013.\u00a0 Of course, the world is slated to end in December of 2012, so I guess it is all for naught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book two of the Hunger Games trilogy returns the reader, and Katniss Everdeen, to the arena as the next Hunger Games tributes are to be selected from previous winners.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to Katniss, her defiance in the previous games has caused some unrest in the other districts, and she is now the symbol around which a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1608,1607,794,793],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-catching-fire","tag-hunger-games","tag-katniss-everdeen","tag-suzanne-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}