{"id":20073,"date":"2023-03-08T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20073"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:19:55","slug":"book-10-of-52-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/book-10-of-52-the-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 10 (of 52) &#8211; The Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20075\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20075\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-winners.jpg 350w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-winners-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Winners &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A storm that rolls through Beartown and Hed and the death of a local barkeep bring old faces, and old grudges, back to town.\u00a0 The destruction of Hed&#8217;s ice rink seems to be the final piece of the puzzle to help the backers of Beartown to convince the council to shut down Hed&#8217;s team, but a plan to shut down both teams and start from scratch threatens both towns.\u00a0 Meanwhile, survivors of a two-year old rape and its fallout find themselves tested again when a young kid attempts to get revenge for a different crime.<\/p>\n<p>Fredrick Backman returns with <em>The Winners<\/em>, the third and supposed final entry in his <em>Beartown<\/em> series.\u00a0 Had I known that before starting it, I may have put it off, since I haven&#8217;t read any of the others.\u00a0 But he does a good job of introducing all of the characters for new readers and telling a story that, while it builds upon what I assume occurred in the previous works, stands on its own.\u00a0 Now that I have an inkling of what the novels are about (<em>Beartown<\/em>, as a title, pointed me in an entirely different direction), I will have to circle back and check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A storm that rolls through Beartown and Hed and the death of a local barkeep bring old faces, and old grudges, back to town.\u00a0 The destruction of Hed&#8217;s ice rink seems to be the final piece of the puzzle to help the backers of Beartown to convince the council to shut down Hed&#8217;s team, but [&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":[10396,9348,10395],"class_list":["post-20073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-beartown","tag-fredrik-backman","tag-the-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073","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=20073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20077,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions\/20077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}