{"id":4777,"date":"2013-09-16T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2013-09-18T00:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:06:39","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4777","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1407109081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hunger-games-uk-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"hunger-games-uk\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hunger-games-uk-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hunger-games-uk-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hunger-games-uk.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read this book on Saira&#8217;s recommendation and I&#8217;m glad I did.  It definitely reads like a book for teenagers but it&#8217;s very good anyway, totally compulsive.  It&#8217;s simply but well written.  The story is science fiction: part Battle Royale, part Big Brother (Channel 4 versions).  It throws up some interesting ideas that will get young people thinking.  Overall, a very enjoyable package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book on Saira&#8217;s recommendation and I&#8217;m glad I did. It definitely reads like a book for teenagers but it&#8217;s very good anyway, totally compulsive. It&#8217;s simply but well written. The story is science fiction: part Battle Royale, part Big Brother (Channel 4 versions). It throws up some interesting ideas that will get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}