{"id":1451,"date":"2010-12-11T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T10:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:06:39","slug":"ya_fiction_hatc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/ya_fiction_hatc.html","title":{"rendered":"(YA) Fiction: Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is extremely overhyped, in my opinion.  The writing is decent and I can see how it would work as a good teaching tool in a middle school classroom. But I was certainly led to expect more, not only from the back cover&#8217;s claim to be &#8220;the surival story with which all others are compared.&#8221;  Yeah&#8211;no.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: fictional stories of survival almost never compare to the much (MUCH) crazier true survival stories out there.  Maybe I&#8217;ve read too many of those to be that impressed by this. Or maybe this isn&#8217;t the survival story by which to compare all others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is extremely overhyped, in my opinion. The writing is decent and I can see how it would work as a good teaching tool in a middle school classroom. But I was certainly led to expect more, not only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/ya_fiction_hatc.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}