{"id":1448,"date":"2012-10-01T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:20:05","slug":"enders-game-by-orson-scott-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrew \u201cEnder\u201d Wiggin was a third \u2014 a child who should not even exist in a society with a strict two children per family limit. \u00a0Why did he exist, then? \u00a0Because his parents had promised to hand him over to the government if he tested well and showed promise as a potential commander in the fight against the Buggers [an alien race with whom the people of Earth were at war]. \u00a0Even though military leaders were excited by Ender\u2019s progress at Battle School and thought he might possess the skill-set needed to save humanity, Ender was kept in the dark. \u00a0All he knew for sure was that Battle School offered him refuge from his sadistic older brother, Peter, while taking him away from the affections of the only person he has ever truly loved, his sister Valentine. \u00a0But ruining one kid\u2019s life to potentially save the human race is worth it, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew \u201cEnder\u201d Wiggin was a third \u2014 a child who should not even exist in a society with a strict two children per family limit. \u00a0Why did he exist, then? \u00a0Because his parents had promised to hand him over to the government if he tested well and showed promise as a potential commander in the … Continue reading Ender\u2019s Game by Orson Scott Card<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}