{"id":14287,"date":"2018-12-11T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T15:30:06","slug":"book-22-of-52-the-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/book-22-of-52-the-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; The Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14295\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/book-22-of-52-the-hike\/thehike\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14295\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14295\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehike.jpg 380w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/thehike-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hike &#8211; Drew Magary<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Hike<\/em>, the latest from Deadspin writer Drew Magary, tells the strange tale of Ben, a 38 year old married man with three kids who travels for work.\u00a0 On one of those trips, he decides to go for a walk in the woods prior to his business meeting and, instead, finds himself in a strange world where a talking crab helps him stick to the path and, hopefully, find his way home.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit, during the early going, I wasn&#8217;t sure exactly what I was reading.\u00a0 In some ways, the surreal nature of it reminded me of the little I have read of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/book-1-of-52-slaughterhouse-five\/\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>\u2019s work.\u00a0 Eventually I decided to just go along for the ride and things turned out for the best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hike, the latest from Deadspin writer Drew Magary, tells the strange tale of Ben, a 38 year old married man with three kids who travels for work.\u00a0 On one of those trips, he decides to go for a walk in the woods prior to his business meeting and, instead, finds himself in a strange [&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":[8118,8117,5263,8116],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-deadspin","tag-drew-magary","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-the-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","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=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14363,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}