{"id":1905,"date":"2020-05-29T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:45:03","slug":"review-if-it-bleeds-by-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-if-it-bleeds-by-stephen-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: If It Bleeds, by Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stephen King is a master storyteller. He&#8217;s often classed as writer of horror, but as one who generally doesn&#8217;t read horror, I think that&#8217;s not entirely accurate.  In this collection of short stories (some would say, novellas) what comes out very clearly is how much the author cares about his characters.  There are moments &#8212; such as when a busker&#8217;s day is transformed by the spontaneous decision of a banker to dance in the street &#8212; that are genuinely moving.  And unlike standard horror stories, often the supernatural elements are not what they seem.  In the final story, after thinking it over (and many of King&#8217;s stories require one to pause and think them over), it becomes quite clear that a central character may in fact exist only in the narrator&#8217;s mind.  Overall, a very enjoyable way to spend several hours while in lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King is a master storyteller. He&#8217;s often classed as writer of horror, but as one who generally doesn&#8217;t read horror, I think that&#8217;s not entirely accurate. In this collection of short stories (some would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}