{"id":19584,"date":"2022-11-21T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2022-11-19T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:32:53","slug":"book-48-of-52-the-lovely-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/book-48-of-52-the-lovely-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 48 (of 52) &#8211; The Lovely Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19585\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lovelybones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19585\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19585\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lovelybones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lovelybones.jpg 317w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/lovelybones-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lovely Bones &#8211; Alice Sebold<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Susie Salmon was 14, she was murdered by a neighbor.\u00a0 As she adjusts to the afterlife, her family tries to find a way forward while her killer tries to cover his tracks.\u00a0 Nearly ten years later, her family finally gets to the point where they are ready to come to terms with what happened, allowing Susie to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in 2002, I first came across <em>The Lovely Bones<\/em> in 2010 when the movie adaptation, starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, and Saoirse Ronan, was released.\u00a0 Alice Sebold&#8217;s novel is able to expand the story, showing the effects on the Salmon family and Susie&#8217;s friends over time without worrying about the ages of the actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Susie Salmon was 14, she was murdered by a neighbor.\u00a0 As she adjusts to the afterlife, her family tries to find a way forward while her killer tries to cover his tracks.\u00a0 Nearly ten years later, her family finally gets to the point where they are ready to come to terms with what happened, [&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":[10234,685,8359,6558,10233],"class_list":["post-19584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-alice-sebold","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-rachel-weisz","tag-saoirse-ronan","tag-the-lovely-bones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584","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=19584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19586,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions\/19586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}