{"id":5513,"date":"2012-11-30T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2012-11-30T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:42:23","slug":"the-twelve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/the-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"The twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16110511-the-twelve\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Twelve (The Passage, #2)\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1351267014m\/16110511.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16110511-the-twelve\">The Twelve<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/45315.Justin_Cronin\">Justin Cronin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/435521912\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took a little while for me to get back up to speed, and to re-familiarize myself with the wealth of characters (most are from the first book, but they&#8217;re now scattered to the four corners of the post-apocalyptic world and living amongst others, rather than all operating in one small group), but once it got going, I tore through this book almost as quickly as I tore through the first. A well-written meditation on many types of love, loss, what we will and won&#8217;t do to survive, what &#8216;survival&#8217; even means, and sacrifice. Can&#8217;t wait for the third and final chapter! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4176347-samantha\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twelve by Justin Cronin My rating: 4 of 5 stars It took a little while for me to get back up to speed, and to re-familiarize myself with the wealth of characters (most are from the first book, but they&#8217;re now scattered to the four corners of the post-apocalyptic world and living amongst others, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1qV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}