{"id":2533,"date":"2014-06-02T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:23:29","slug":"salems-lot-by-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Salem&#8217;s Lot by Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2578 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Salems-Lot.jpg\" alt=\"Salem's Lot\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the fact that this book was published in 1975, this is one of the best Vampire stories I&#8217;ve ever read. \u00a0Stephen King is a master at fleshing (pardon the pun!) out a character like nobody else. \u00a0And his portrayal of small town American life is spot on as well. \u00a0I&#8217;m also a fan of the way he portrays kids as being strong, opinionated, and brave human beings and often they are the ones in his stories to be reckoned with. \u00a0A word of warning : with the summer months upon us, you may not want to read this book at night, with your windows open &#8211; or you could, if you dare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the fact that this book was published in 1975, this is one of the best Vampire stories I&#8217;ve ever read. \u00a0Stephen King is a master at fleshing (pardon the pun!) out a character like nobody else. \u00a0And his portrayal of small town American life is spot on as well. \u00a0I&#8217;m also a fan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2533\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salem&#8217;s Lot by Stephen King<\/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":[3,4,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}