{"id":622,"date":"2016-11-17T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","slug":"book-of-the-week-hatchet-by-gary-paulsen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/11\/17\/book-of-the-week-hatchet-by-gary-paulsen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hatchet-Gary-Paulsen\/dp\/1416936475\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479346599&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=hatchet&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=0784e282b4e8a58092cd6e27620eb02f\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61tkn0Wgc-L._SL250_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hatchet-Gary-Paulsen\/dp\/1416936475\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479346599&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=hatchet&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=948e9b782af58239e94013f926f81a36\">Hatchet<\/a> by accident. One February or March when they passed out those Scholastic order forms in class, I placed an order for a book I really wanted. One month later, to my horror and outrage, they&#8217;d sent me a completely different book that sounded outright boring (Hatchet). Yes, another month later they corrected my order, and I got to keep the first book free, but I gave up trying to read it for a good number of years more.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I picked up Hatchet and determined to read it. Once I&#8217;d gotten past the point of my duplicate reading, I found the story enthralling.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is simple: When&#8230;(I&#8217;m intentionally leaving that vague), a boy in the small plane survives. Now he must survive in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Simple plot, great story. Go get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hatchet-Gary-Paulsen\/dp\/1416936475\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1479346599&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=hatchet&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=948e9b782af58239e94013f926f81a36\">Hatchet<\/a>\u00a0and give it a try.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tdspeirs-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=1416936475\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered Hatchet by accident. One February or March when they passed out those Scholastic order forms in class, I placed an order for a book I really wanted. One month later, to my horror and outrage, they&#8217;d sent me a completely different book that sounded outright boring (Hatchet). Yes, another month later they corrected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-of-the-week","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}