{"id":1699,"date":"2013-02-20T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:33:21","slug":"the-dog-stars-by-peter-heller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Stars by Peter Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1729\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Dog-Stars1.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Stars\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the story of Hig, a flu survivor, who with his faithful but elderly dog, Jasper, works hard to survive. \u00a0Life is tough in the future after the majority of the population has died from a new strain of the flu. \u00a0There are no zombies, vampires or werewolves in this story, but it is still downright scary! \u00a0Most of the remaining population are not nice people.<\/p>\n<p>Hig&#8217;s only human friend works with him to survive, and he can still fish, hunt, cook, and fly his 1956 Cesna, but Hig misses life as it was. \u00a0One day he flies beyond his return point in the hope of finding something more. \u00a0Full of philosophical musings, sometimes meaningful, sometimes less so, this is an enjoyable and high-tension story of characters you will care about. \u00a0Ignore the swears &#8212;\u00a0 life is brutal here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the story of Hig, a flu survivor, who with his faithful but elderly dog, Jasper, works hard to survive. \u00a0Life is tough in the future after the majority of the population has died from a new strain of the flu. \u00a0There are no zombies, vampires or werewolves in this story, but it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dog Stars by Peter Heller<\/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":[3,4,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}