{"id":7293,"date":"2014-12-23T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2014-12-22T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T02:06:31","slug":"book-22-of-52-the-one-i-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/book-22-of-52-the-one-i-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; The One I Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7294\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theoneileftbehind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7294\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theoneileftbehind.jpg\" alt=\"The One I Left Behind - Jennifer McMahon\" width=\"228\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theoneileftbehind.jpg 228w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/theoneileftbehind-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The One I Left Behind &#8211; Jennifer McMahon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years <a title=\"Book 6 (of 52) \u2013 Dismantled\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/book-6-of-52-%e2%80%93-dismantled\/\">back<\/a>, I somehow came across a book by Jennifer McMahon and, from what I remember, I enjoyed it but didn&#8217;t love it. \u00a0When I saw one of her books on sale in the Kindle bookstore, I decided to pick it up and give her work another chance. \u00a0And, boy, am I glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p><em>The One I Left Behind<\/em> deals with an architect whose mother was assumed to be the last victim of a serial killer when she was a kid. \u00a0When her mother turns up alive, she returns home for the first time in years to try and figure out what happened to her mother and the identity of the killer.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it was, but the book reached out and grabbed me in a way I wasn&#8217;t expecting. \u00a0I very much enjoyed it and was sorry that it ended as soon as it did. \u00a0Based on this, I will definitely be checking out more of McMahon&#8217;s work, without a 4 year wait this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I somehow came across a book by Jennifer McMahon and, from what I remember, I enjoyed it but didn&#8217;t love it. \u00a0When I saw one of her books on sale in the Kindle bookstore, I decided to pick it up and give her work another chance. \u00a0And, boy, am I glad [&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":[188,2889,5207],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-jennifer-mcmahon","tag-kindle","tag-the-one-i-left-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","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=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}