{"id":2443,"date":"2014-05-01T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:28:36","slug":"the-martian-a-novel-by-andy-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2463 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/The-Martian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Watney is left for dead on Mars. \u00a0Knocked unconscious, he is lucky enough to be alive, but how much longer will his luck hold out?\u00a0 He has no contact with Earth and few supplies.\u00a0\u00a0Wounded and alone, he must use all his knowledge, cunning, and bravery to stay alive long enough to contact someone for help. \u00a0Will he survive long enough for a crew to come back and save him? \u00a0If they can!\u00a0\u00a0With its sharp sense of humor and scientific savvy, his struggle is engrossing.\u00a0 A bit heavy with mathematical and scientific explanation, Mark&#8217;s story is still a mesmerizing adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Watney is left for dead on Mars. \u00a0Knocked unconscious, he is lucky enough to be alive, but how much longer will his luck hold out?\u00a0 He has no contact with Earth and few supplies.\u00a0\u00a0Wounded and alone, he must use all his knowledge, cunning, and bravery to stay alive long enough to contact someone for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir<\/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-2443","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\/2443","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=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}