{"id":963,"date":"2014-06-26T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2014-06-26T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T05:28:10","slug":"favorite-book-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/favorite-book-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What was your favorite book in high school?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/books2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-970\" src=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/books2-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"books2\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/books2-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/books2.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of friends who just don&#8217;t listen to me or follow rules well at all. When I invited people to my 50th birthday party, I specified no gifts, or gifts of books for the kids at <a href=\"tree\">Treehouse<\/a>, a great organization that provides the little extras, as well as counseling and mentors to foster children in Western Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them, however, gave me gift cards to a monolithic e-marketplace that is currently attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article\/amazon-vs-hachette-battle-future-publishing\/\">crush<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/\">Hachette Book Group<\/a>, probably as a warning shot to other publishers. I&#8217;m not going to use those cards to cut into my 150-odd long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/lisa-jaffe-hubbell\/books-i-want-april-2014\/594408303926035\">books I want<\/a> list. I&#8217;m going to buy books for Treehouse. I got hundreds of books at my birthday party, but most of them were for younger readers. So I&#8217;m going to focus on young adult books with this money.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hunger-Games-Trilogy-Box-Set\/dp\/0545670314\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403845312&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=hunger+games\">The Hunger Games<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Fault-Stars-John-Green\/dp\/014242417X\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y\">The Fault in Our Stars<\/a> are big hits with this crowd, but I don&#8217;t want to leave out classics. So I&#8217;m asking you to chime in. Tell me what your favorite book was in high school. I figure I have enough money to get about 20 books. I have about a dozen loyal readers. Let&#8217;s see if you all can share this and cajole enough friends and relatives to participate so that we get 20 different titles in the comments. I&#8217;ll buy them all and present them to Treehouse the week after Independence Day, when I&#8217;m scheduled to take in a Prius-full of books to the Wearhouse.<\/p>\n<p>So go forth and share. But only after you tell me: what was your favorite young adult read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of friends who just don&#8217;t listen to me or follow rules well at all. When I invited people to my 50th birthday party, I specified no gifts, or gifts of books for the kids at Treehouse, a great organization that provides the little extras, as well as counseling and mentors to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,532,6],"tags":[643,730,729,480,681,793],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-blogathon","category-books","tag-freelance-success","tag-hachette-book-group","tag-the-fault-in-our-stars","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-treehouse","tag-wordcount-blogathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}