{"id":7451,"date":"2015-01-04T04:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7451"},"modified":"2015-01-02T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:50:50","slug":"book-1-of-52-slaughterhouse-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/book-1-of-52-slaughterhouse-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 1 (of 52) &#8211; Slaughterhouse-Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7452\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Slaughterhouse-Five.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7452\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Slaughterhouse-Five.jpg\" alt=\"Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slaughterhouse-Five &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As 2014 was winding down, Amazon had a sale that offered the eBook version of\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> for $1.99.\u00a0 Having never read any of Vonnegut&#8217;s work, and wanting to be able to check him off on those click surveys of\u00a0important books that you&#8217;ve read, I pulled the trigger and made this my first choice of the new year.<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t read it, the book is about Billy Pilgrim, an optometrist from upstate New York who believes he is unstuck in time and has been abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.\u00a0 Throughout the book, he jumps from timeframe to timeframe, mostly during World War II and the fire bombing of Dresden where he,\u00a0like Vonnegut, was held as a prisoner of war.<\/p>\n<p>While this is considered one of the best American novels of the 20th century, I can&#8217;t say that I would hold it in such great accord.\u00a0 While I certainly enjoyed it, and can now say that I have read Vonnegut, it wasn&#8217;t the be all and end all.\u00a0 Maybe my tastes just aren&#8217;t refined enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2014 was winding down, Amazon had a sale that offered the eBook version of\u00a0Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Slaughterhouse-Five for $1.99.\u00a0 Having never read any of Vonnegut&#8217;s work, and wanting to be able to check him off on those click surveys of\u00a0important books that you&#8217;ve read, I pulled the trigger and made this my first choice of [&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":[2890,5263,5262],"class_list":["post-7451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amazon","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-slaughterhouse-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","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=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}