{"id":672,"date":"2011-05-07T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=672"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:45:27","slug":"world-war-z-an-oral-history-of-the-zombie-war-by-max-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-683 size-full\" title=\"World War Z\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/World-War-Z1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A riveting historical account of the Zombie War, this is a document that chronicles the experiences of men, women and children during the plague years.\u00a0 Thought to have started in China, the virus that\u00a0resulted in the rise of the living dead nearly brought about the end of human society.\u00a0 This collection of individual survivor accounts is a follow-up to Brooks&#8217; 2003 book<em> The Zombie<\/em> <em>Survival Guide<\/em>.\u00a0 If you are a fan of zombie lit, you will enjoy this chilling post-apocalyptic horror\u00a0collection\u00a0which adds the human element to a United Nations report that was mainly facts and figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A riveting historical account of the Zombie War, this is a document that chronicles the experiences of men, women and children during the plague years.\u00a0 Thought to have started in China, the virus that\u00a0resulted in the rise of the living dead nearly brought about the end of human society.\u00a0 This collection of individual survivor accounts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks<\/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-672","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\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}