{"id":447,"date":"2011-01-07T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:30:17","slug":"zombies-vs-unicorns-edited-by-holly-black-and-justine-larbalestier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-490 size-full\" title=\"Zombies vs. Unicorns\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zombies-vs-unicorns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one crazy anthology!\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t really what I was expecting &#8212;\u00a0 one unicorn story made\u00a0mention of farting rainbows, while a few of the zombie stories seemed more like love stories and inspirational stories than horror and gore.\u00a0 The story introductions, written by editors Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, were rather humorous arguments as to which of the &#8220;teams&#8221; was winning [based on the stories so far] and always added something extra to the stories themselves.\u00a0 The scary thing is,\u00a0I think I may have been converted from &#8220;Team Unicorn&#8221; to &#8220;Team Zombie&#8221; in the end!\u00a0 If you&#8217;re looking for some awesome stories that get away from the typical unicorn and zombie stereotypes, you&#8217;ll want to check out this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one crazy anthology!\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t really what I was expecting &#8212;\u00a0 one unicorn story made\u00a0mention of farting rainbows, while a few of the zombie stories seemed more like love stories and inspirational stories than horror and gore.\u00a0 The story introductions, written by editors Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, were rather humorous arguments as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier<\/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-447","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\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}