{"id":2151,"date":"2012-09-07T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2012-09-07T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:38:59","slug":"almost-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/promised-2\/almost-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2152\" title=\"COBwPromised\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/COBwPromised.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/COBwPromised.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/COBwPromised-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Squee moment!<\/p>\n<p>My editor sent me the cover of <em>Promised<\/em>, so naturally I wrapped it around a copy of <em>Birthmarked<\/em> to see what it looked like for real.\u00a0 Not too shabby!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m particularly pleased with the description on the inside flap. Go, Gaia, go!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and overthrowing Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her greatest challenge yet\u2014to lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them refuge.\u00a0 But in Gaia\u2019s absence, the Enclave has become even more ruthless, picking girls from outside the wall to serve in an experimental baby factory.\u00a0 Babies with the right genes are now a priceless commodity, with the potential to reshape life inside the wall and redefine humanity.\u00a0 The key to it all comes back to one fearless, young midwife.\u00a0 When negotiations devolve into terrorist threats, Gaia finds herself at the crux of an insupportable decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As a leader, a woman, and an idealist in love, Gaia must choose whether she can sacrifice what\u2014or whom\u2014she values most.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squee moment! My editor sent me the cover of Promised, so naturally I wrapped it around a copy of Birthmarked to see what it looked like for real.\u00a0 Not too shabby! I\u2019m particularly pleased with the description on the inside flap. Go, Gaia, go! After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and overthrowing Sylum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[26,109],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promised-2","tag-covers","tag-promised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}