{"id":102,"date":"2018-04-30T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:35:09","slug":"miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-by-ransom-riggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/2018\/04\/30\/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-by-ransom-riggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/files\/2018\/04\/51OzCSUtdFL._SX320_BO1204203200_-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/files\/2018\/04\/51OzCSUtdFL._SX320_BO1204203200_-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/files\/2018\/04\/51OzCSUtdFL._SX320_BO1204203200_.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Jacob&#8217;s grandfather dies, Jacob is able to find Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home For Peculiar Children. Upon this discovery, he realizes that his grandfather was one of these children. He finds them on a mysterious island that have been quarantined. He realizes that they could be dangerous, but that they are still alive.<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to like this book. I really did. I got about half way through this book before I realized how bored I was, and I couldn&#8217;t continue. This book series is pretty popular and the first book was made into a movie. Upon seeing the trailer for the movie several times, I decided to give this book a try. I really didn&#8217;t like it. It was mostly the reading that was incredibly slow for me. I would be more than interested into giving this book another try and maybe I&#8217;ll learn to like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jacob&#8217;s grandfather dies, Jacob is able to find Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home For Peculiar Children. Upon this discovery, he realizes that his grandfather was one of these children. He finds them on a mysterious island that have been quarantined. He realizes that they could be dangerous, but that they are still alive. I really wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/2018\/04\/30\/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-by-ransom-riggs\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[854001,854112,2613],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children","tag-ransom-riggs","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/fantasybooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}