{"id":2879,"date":"2014-09-28T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:25:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:25:35","slug":"looking-for-alaska-by-john-green-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Alaska by John Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Looking-for-Alaska.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for Alaska\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After having read <em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em>, I decided to pick up\u00a0John Green&#8217;s\u00a0first book, and I was not disappointed. \u00a0I really enjoyed this and am again pleasantly pleased with how Green can write so convincingly of teenage thoughts, feelings, etc. \u00a0I tried another of his books, <em>Paper Towns,<\/em> and I didn&#8217;t like it at all and stopped reading it.\u00a0 (Wondering if anyone else felt the same?). \u00a0I will now try one of his other books soon. \u00a0This was really good and I would recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having read The Fault in Our Stars, I decided to pick up\u00a0John Green&#8217;s\u00a0first book, and I was not disappointed. \u00a0I really enjoyed this and am again pleasantly pleased with how Green can write so convincingly of teenage thoughts, feelings, etc. \u00a0I tried another of his books, Paper Towns, and I didn&#8217;t like it at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking for Alaska by John Green<\/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":[3,6,8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","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=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}