{"id":4204,"date":"2013-07-03T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4204"},"modified":"2013-07-02T20:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T02:50:24","slug":"book-10-of-52-eyes-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/book-10-of-52-eyes-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 10 (of 52) &#8211; Eyes Wide Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4205\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookeyeswide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4205\" alt=\"Eyes Wide Open - Andrew Gross\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookeyeswide.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookeyeswide.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookeyeswide-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eyes Wide Open &#8211; Andrew Gross<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had never heard of Andrew Gross before reading this book, which I must have picked up for free on Amazon Kindle. \u00a0He apparently had done some co-writing with James Patterson before eventually striking out on his own. \u00a0This tale, based partially on his own nephew&#8217;s death, was somewhat enjoyable and did manage to catch my interest, despite some flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Gross weaves together a story about a young teen who allegedly committed suicide, the uncle who wouldn&#8217;t accept the official version of the story, and the ties to a murdering cult leader that seemed an awful lot like Charles Manson. \u00a0For the most part, the story was engaging, but there were a few leaps of faith required to make the story keep going.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m not sure if I would ever search out another entry from Andrew Gross, but, if another special were to pop up like that one that landed this tome in my digital library, I could probably be compelled to give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of Andrew Gross before reading this book, which I must have picked up for free on Amazon Kindle. \u00a0He apparently had done some co-writing with James Patterson before eventually striking out on his own. \u00a0This tale, based partially on his own nephew&#8217;s death, was somewhat enjoyable and did manage to catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2890,3562,3563,3561,2885,2889],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amazon","tag-andrew-gross","tag-charles-manson","tag-eyes-wide-open","tag-james-patterson","tag-kindle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}