{"id":20156,"date":"2023-04-05T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20156"},"modified":"2023-04-01T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:30:04","slug":"book-14-of-52-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/book-14-of-52-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 14 (of 52) &#8211; Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20157\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/election.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20157\" class=\"wp-image-20157 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/election.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/election.jpg 321w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/election-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election &#8211; Tom Perrotta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jim McAllister, history teacher and faculty, advisor to the Student Government Association, has a problem.\u00a0 He blames Tracy Flick, the only declared candidate, for ruining his friend&#8217;s career, a former teacher who had an inappropriate relationship with Flick the year before.\u00a0 To settle the score, he convinces Paul Warren, a football star, to run against her as a way to boost his college resume.\u00a0 Paul&#8217;s sister Tammy decides to run as well, jealous that Paul is now dating her former friend, and secret crush.\u00a0 As his home life implodes, Mr. M, as he&#8217;s known to his students, risks it all to stop Tracy from winning, which blows up his professional life.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted into a hit 1999 film starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, <em>Election<\/em> was Tom Perrotta&#8217;s second novel.\u00a0 I became reacquainted with the Tracy Flick character last fall, when Perrotta released the sequel <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/book-38-of-52-tracy-flick-cant-win\/\"><em>Tracy Flick Can&#8217;t Win<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This tale unfolded much as I expected it to, from my recollections of a 25-year-old film.\u00a0 I have yet to be disappointed by one of Perrotta&#8217;s works, so I&#8217;m sure I will be digging back into his back catalog soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim McAllister, history teacher and faculty, advisor to the Student Government Association, has a problem.\u00a0 He blames Tracy Flick, the only declared candidate, for ruining his friend&#8217;s career, a former teacher who had an inappropriate relationship with Flick the year before.\u00a0 To settle the score, he convinces Paul Warren, a football star, to run against [&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":[10166,6310,4849,7655,10165],"class_list":["post-20156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-election","tag-matthew-broderick","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-tom-perrotta","tag-tracy-flick-cant-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156","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=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20158,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions\/20158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}