{"id":7623,"date":"2015-02-11T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:10:55","slug":"book-5-of-52-joyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/book-5-of-52-joyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) &#8211; Joyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7624\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joyland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7624\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7624\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joyland.jpg\" alt=\"Joyland - Stephen King\" width=\"306\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joyland.jpg 306w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Joyland-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyland &#8211; Stephen King<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Joyland<\/em>, Stephen King&#8217;s second novel for the Hard Case Crime imprint, tells the tale of a young college student who takes a summer job at an amusement park in North Carolina, stumbling upon a murder mystery and a haunted ride in the process.\u00a0 Mostly, though, this is a coming of age story, as the protagonist, Devin Jones, gets over his first heartbreak, finds a place where he truly fits in, at least for a while, and manages to solve the crime of who murdered the girl who haunts the Horror House.<\/p>\n<p>The crime elements, along with the supernatural, take a back seat in this tale, which I gather is not quite the intent of the line.\u00a0 But when a name like Stephen King offers to write a book for you, I guess you don&#8217;t let silly quibbles like that stand in the way.\u00a0 I enjoyed this side of King&#8217;s work and might look to pick up his first novel for this line, the inspiration for the Syfy series <em>Haven<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyland, Stephen King&#8217;s second novel for the Hard Case Crime imprint, tells the tale of a young college student who takes a summer job at an amusement park in North Carolina, stumbling upon a murder mystery and a haunted ride in the process.\u00a0 Mostly, though, this is a coming of age story, as the protagonist, [&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":[5327,5328,5326,718,370],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-hard-case-crime","tag-haven","tag-joyland","tag-stephen-king","tag-syfy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","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=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}