{"id":406,"date":"2010-12-15T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T20:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:42:07","slug":"the-line-by-teri-hall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"The Line by Teri Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignleft wp-image-407\" title=\"The Line\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/the-line2.jpg?w=99\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rachel and her mother, Vivian, have lived on The Property as long as she can recall.\u00a0 Vivian works for Ms. Moore, who owns The Property and runs a greenhouse in which she grows orchids.\u00a0 The Property is very quiet and secluded, but it is located adjacent to the infamous Line &#8212; a border protection system which separates the U.S. from Away.\u00a0 To stop an approaching foreign enemy, the U.S. had activated the Line without warning, trapping many U.S. citizens in Away.\u00a0 Then, Away was blasted with atomic bombs.\u00a0 The Line is always on to keep Others from crossing the border.\u00a0 Anyone who speaks out against the government and\/or the Line is considered a traitor, and almost everyone lives in fear of the oppressive government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel and her mother, Vivian, have lived on The Property as long as she can recall.\u00a0 Vivian works for Ms. Moore, who owns The Property and runs a greenhouse in which she grows orchids.\u00a0 The Property is very quiet and secluded, but it is located adjacent to the infamous Line &#8212; a border protection system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Line by Teri Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-406","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\/406","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}