{"id":13467,"date":"2018-03-17T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T20:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2018-03-17T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T20:49:30","slug":"book-8-of-52-how-i-survived-my-summer-vacation-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/book-8-of-52-how-i-survived-my-summer-vacation-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 8 (of 52) &#8211; How I Survived My Summer Vacation Vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13468\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/summervacay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13468\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/summervacay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/summervacay.jpg 286w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/summervacay-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How I Survived My Summer Vacation &#8211; Michelle West, Nancy Holder, Cameron Dokey, Yvonne Navarro, Paul Ruditis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This collection of 6 short stories, billed as Volume 1 though the only one released, takes place between seasons 1 &amp; 2 of <em>Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/em>.\u00a0 Buffy has gone to Los Angeles to spend the summer with her estranged father while Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, and Jenny Calendar hold down the fort in Sunnydale.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to return to the old Scooby gang once again, but I think this would have worked better as a singular effort rather than as a collection from multiple writers.\u00a0 As is, it was a bit of a disjointed experience, with character personalities, especially Giles, shifting from story to story.\u00a0 But, as the last Buffy book left in my drawer of things to read, finishing it was a bittersweet experience.\u00a0 Maybe one day I&#8217;ll go searching for the novels I haven&#8217;t already read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of 6 short stories, billed as Volume 1 though the only one released, takes place between seasons 1 &amp; 2 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.\u00a0 Buffy has gone to Los Angeles to spend the summer with her estranged father while Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, and Jenny Calendar hold down the fort in Sunnydale. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[106,7876,7874,7875,913,7877,1599],"class_list":["post-13467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-buffy","tag-cameron-dokey","tag-how-i-survived-my-summer-vacation","tag-michelle-west","tag-nancy-holder","tag-paul-ruditis","tag-yvonne-navarro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467","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=13467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}