{"id":18404,"date":"2021-12-21T06:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18404"},"modified":"2021-12-19T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T22:41:10","slug":"book-52-of-52-the-lost-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/book-52-of-52-the-lost-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 52 (of 52) &#8211; The Lost Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18405\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thelostsymbol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18405\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thelostsymbol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thelostsymbol.jpg 318w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/thelostsymbol-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lost Symbol &#8211; Dan Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The Lost Symbol<\/em>, Dan Brown&#8217;s follow-up to the phenomenon that was <em>The DaVinci Code<\/em>, finds symbologist Robert Langdon summoned to Washington DC to do a favor for a friend.\u00a0 When he arrives, he finds that he has been tricked and, to save the life of his friend, he must stay ahead of the CIA and decipher the secret codes of the Masons to try and stop a madman.<\/p>\n<p>The third of five novels in the Robert Langdon series, <em>The Lost Symbol<\/em>\u00a0was the only one I hadn&#8217;t yet read.\u00a0 I do have one of his standalone works sitting on the Kindle, which I am sure to get to one of these days.\u00a0 Or years.<\/p>\n<p>Book 52!\u00a0 For the first time since I started this 52 books in 52 weeks challenge back in 2010, I actually made it to the finish line.\u00a0 My previous high point of 31, which I managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/2015-the-year-in-books\/\">hit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/2016-the-year-in-books\/\">twice<\/a>, was tied and surpassed back in August.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll go into more detail when we wrap up the year in books in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown&#8217;s follow-up to the phenomenon that was The DaVinci Code, finds symbologist Robert Langdon summoned to Washington DC to do a favor for a friend.\u00a0 When he arrives, he finds that he has been tricked and, to save the life of his friend, he must stay ahead of the CIA and [&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":[4657,5553,3447,9870],"class_list":["post-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-dan-brown","tag-robert-langdon","tag-the-davinci-code","tag-the-lost-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404","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=18404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18406,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions\/18406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}