{"id":3106,"date":"2011-08-29T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/six-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:42:34","slug":"six-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/six-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX On The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/magazine\/blogs\/selfystars\/2011\/08\/-the-power-of-six.html\" target=\"_blank\">from SELF Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Summer Beach Read:\u00a0<em>The Power of Six<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM\u00a0 |\u00a0 posted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/contributors\/laura-brounstein\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Brounstein<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Power of Six,<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;by&#8221; Pittacus Lore, is the latest book from James Frey&#8217;s Full Fathom Five and, like its predecessor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/magazine\/blogs\/selfystars\/2011\/02\/girl-power-in-i-am-number-four.html\" target=\"_blank\">I Am Number Four<\/a><\/em>, it is a furiously fun foray into the fight facing the teenage survivors of the planet Lorien.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/magazine\/blogs\/selfystars\/powerofsix.jpg\" height=\"299\" width=\"450\" alt=\"powerofsix.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not only do these teens have to struggle against alien predators, the Mogadorians, but they also need to learn how to handle their adolescent inclinations &#8212; both earthly (I like two girls!) and not (can I harness my powers, my Legacies, effectively enough to save the planet?).<\/p>\n<p>While John Smith, the hero of\u00a0<em>I Am Number Four<\/em>\u00a0is a central character of this book as well, he is now joined by two other Loriens, Numbers Six and Seven. They are two very different girls, Six is a hardened battle veteran and Seven is just coming into her Legacies, but their characters develop richly as the book progresses, giving what could otherwise be just another YA genre romp some heart and heft.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.self.com\/magazine\/blogs\/selfystars\/2011\/08\/-the-power-of-six.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SELF.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SELF Magazine Summer Beach Read:\u00a0The Power of Six Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 1:12 PM\u00a0 |\u00a0 posted by\u00a0Laura Brounstein The Power of Six,\u00a0&#8220;by&#8221; Pittacus Lore, is the latest book from James Frey&#8217;s Full Fathom Five and, like its predecessor,\u00a0I Am Number Four, it is a furiously fun foray into the fight facing the teenage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}