{"id":4039,"date":"2013-06-11T18:58:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T00:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2013-06-11T18:58:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T00:58:43","slug":"book-9-of-52-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/book-9-of-52-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) &#8211; Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4040\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Skin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4040\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4040\" alt=\"Skin - Ben Mezrich\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Skin.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Skin.jpg 419w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Skin-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skin &#8211; Ben Mezrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t remember, <em>The X-Files<\/em> was a popular television show at the end of the 20th century. \u00a0This novel, released in 1999, doesn&#8217;t necessarily fit in to any particular time frame in the series run other than having both Mulder and Scully, which would place it somewhere in the first 7 seasons. \u00a0The author, Ben Mezrich, is best known for his non-fiction work, which has been adapted into the movies <em>21<\/em> and <em>The Social Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When a mysterious disorder causes an ordinary professor to exhibit extreme feats of strength, Mulder and Scully get pulled in to a mystery that leads them from the streets of New York to the jungles of Thailand in order to find the answers they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like this was the one <em>X-Files<\/em> novel that I had not read during the shows original run, other than the movie novelizations, so this was a one time journey back into the world of the FBI&#8217;s premiere team for strange and unusual occurrences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t remember, The X-Files was a popular television show at the end of the 20th century. \u00a0This novel, released in 1999, doesn&#8217;t necessarily fit in to any particular time frame in the series run other than having both Mulder and Scully, which would place it somewhere in the first 7 [&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":[3479,3478,1406,508],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-3479","tag-ben-mezrich","tag-the-social-network","tag-x-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","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=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}