{"id":2064,"date":"2021-06-24T06:54:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2023-03-20T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T20:59:32","slug":"quick-book-review-the-city-we-became-my-n-k-jemisin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Quick Book Review: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42074525-the-city-we-became\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1585327950l\/42074525._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The City We Became (Great Cities #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42074525-the-city-we-became\">The City We Became<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2917917.N_K_Jemisin\">N.K. Jemisin<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3352839749\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Definitely one of the most &#8220;out there&#8221; premises that I&#8217;ve read from Jemisin. She pulls it off well, though, and any time I felt myself getting lost in the rules of the universe, the characters always grounded me. Fun, innovative, and a great commentary on urbanization and gentrification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/22289291-devin-poore\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Definitely one of the most &#8220;out there&#8221; premises that I&#8217;ve read from Jemisin. She pulls it off well, though, and any time I felt myself getting lost in the rules of the universe, the characters always grounded me. Fun, innovative, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-xi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}