{"id":17185,"date":"2021-03-11T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17185"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:06:31","slug":"book-10-of-52-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/book-10-of-52-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 10 (of 52) &#8211; Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17186\" style=\"width: 323px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/later_king.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17186\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17186\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/later_king.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/later_king.jpg 313w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/later_king-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Later &#8211; Stephen King<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Later<\/em>, Stephen King\u2019s third effort for the Hard Case Crime imprint, tells the tale of a young man who has the ability to see and interact with the dead, at least for a few days after their passing.\u00a0 Unfortunately for him, when he is forced to use his &#8220;talents&#8221; to help his mother save her struggling business, he exposes himself to her girlfriend, an unstable cop with IA on her tail.\u00a0 As he grows up, she twice kidnaps him, looking to use him to her advantage, first to stop a serial bomber who had just committed suicide and, finally, to set herself up with a huge drug score after killing her dealer.<\/p>\n<p>The horror elements that one usually associates with Stephen King mostly take a back seat here, although there is a mysterious ghost\/demon that shows up from time to time, as King once again uses this imprint to tell a different kind of story.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve enjoyed this side of King\u2019s work in the past and will look forward to more of it in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later, Stephen King\u2019s third effort for the Hard Case Crime imprint, tells the tale of a young man who has the ability to see and interact with the dead, at least for a few days after their passing.\u00a0 Unfortunately for him, when he is forced to use his &#8220;talents&#8221; to help his mother save her [&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":[5327,9323,718],"class_list":["post-17185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-hard-case-crime","tag-later","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17187,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17185\/revisions\/17187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}