{"id":2191,"date":"2016-01-19T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2016-01-19T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:09:02","slug":"review-the-shannara-chronicles-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/19\/review-the-shannara-chronicles-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; The Shannara Chronicles &#8211; Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The advertising was very persuasive. The cinematography on the advertisements blew me away. And Terry Brooks&#8217; books had been favourites of mine as a teenager. I can remember reading Sword of Shannara in the library and then going out and buying Elfstones the moment that it was published (1982?).<\/p>\n<p>But still there was lingering doubt. I still remember the appalling mess that was the 2004 mini series based upon A Wizard of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advertising was very persuasive. The cinematography on the advertisements blew me away. And Terry Brooks&#8217; books had been favourites of mine as a teenager. I can remember reading Sword of Shannara in the library and then going out and buying Elfstones the moment that it was published (1982?). But still there was lingering doubt. I still remember the appalling mess that was the 2004 mini series based upon A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,39],"tags":[32],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-gnlong","post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews","category-wbfs","tag-review","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Shannara-Chronicles.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}