{"id":17858,"date":"2021-08-27T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17858"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T00:27:13","slug":"book-34-of-52-the-martian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/book-34-of-52-the-martian\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 34 (of 52) &#8211; The Martian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17859\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/themartian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17859\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17859\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/themartian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/themartian.jpg 282w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/themartian-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Martian &#8211; Andy Weir<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a strong windstorm forces the crew of Ares 3 to end their Mars mission sooner than expected,\u00a0Mark Watney is left for dead after being hit by debris during the evacuation.\u00a0 He manages to survive, and, using his skills as a botanist and an engineer, he finds a way to thrive, eventually growing a potato farm to extend his food supply.\u00a0 With limited options to save him, NASA bets everything on a long shot, shooting his returning crew around the Earth and back towards Mars in a one-in-a-million shot to reconnect with their missing colleague.\u00a0 He just needs to find a way to get to the future site of Ares 4 and hope he can meet his crewmates in orbit as they fly by.<\/p>\n<p>I was familiar with the story of <em>The Martian<\/em>, having seen the film adaptation released in 2015.\u00a0 Although I knew the overall beats, I still very much enjoyed the ride for a second time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to what else Andy Weir has produced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a strong windstorm forces the crew of Ares 3 to end their Mars mission sooner than expected,\u00a0Mark Watney is left for dead after being hit by debris during the evacuation.\u00a0 He manages to survive, and, using his skills as a botanist and an engineer, he finds a way to thrive, eventually growing a potato [&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":[9758,6430],"class_list":["post-17858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-andy-weir","tag-the-martian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858","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=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17860,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions\/17860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}