{"id":890,"date":"2020-04-19T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2020-04-19T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:28:58","slug":"the-stand-by-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/the-stand-by-stephen-king\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stand, By Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"243\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-stand-jacket-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-stand-jacket-2.jpg 243w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-stand-jacket-2-182x300.jpg 182w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/the-stand-jacket-2-91x150.jpg 91w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Stand<\/em>, By Stephen King.&nbsp; What can I say besides I\u2019ve read this book three times and am about to read it again?&nbsp; It\u2019s a classic Dystopian, Apocalyptic, End-of-the-world-because-of-a-deadly-virus, Quest-for-Salvation, Good-vs-Evil book with a plot and characters that keep you rooted to the page, lost in a world that is not\u2014or <em>was<\/em> not\u2014reality; a story that scares you until you remind yourself that\u2019s it\u2019s fiction.&nbsp; Or is it?&nbsp; Maybe it\u2019s an allegory of sorts, of mankind\u2019s struggle to find the good in a frightening world.&nbsp; King is at his very best here, creating memorable characters (the good guys and the bad), and a sense of place that rivets you into the world where cities are destroyed and the landscape is barren and the world is very, very dangerous.&nbsp; Follow Stuart and Frannie and Nick and Tom Collins\u2014and the rest of the group of people who cross the country to save mankind.&nbsp; A must read for any fans of, well, a book you can\u2019t put down. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stand, By Stephen King.&nbsp; What can I say besides I\u2019ve read this book three times and am about to read it again?&nbsp; It\u2019s a classic Dystopian, Apocalyptic, End-of-the-world-because-of-a-deadly-virus, Quest-for-Salvation, Good-vs-Evil book with a plot and characters that keep you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/the-stand-by-stephen-king\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}