{"id":1258,"date":"2010-07-27T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","slug":"book-log-the-lightning-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Lightning Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 1)<\/i> by Rick Riordan<\/p>\n<p>This is a fine young-adult novel about a new half-blood hero.  It was fairly well written, and held my interest through out.  If I had a complaint, it was that it read like a book that wanted to be a screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons to Harry Potter are inevitable, as this is about a boy in an unfortunate home environment, who discovers that he has secret powers and gets shipped off to a camp for other kids like him, where he discovers he is even more unique than even the other unusual kids there. Then, he teams up with a boy and a girl his age and goes on dangerous adventures.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard that the later 4 books are better, so I look forward to checking them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 1) by Rick Riordan This is a fine young-adult novel about a new half-blood hero. It was fairly well written, and held my interest through out. If I had a complaint, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,457],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}