{"id":1797,"date":"2021-11-01T08:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:59:48","slug":"the-house-of-the-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/01\/the-house-of-the-scorpion\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of the Scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start with an old favourite, Nancy Farmer&#8217;s <em>The House of the Scorpion<\/em>.Matteo lives in a dystopian world, in the region of Opium, in what used to be northern Mexico. \u00a0 El Patron, the drug lord who controls this area is already 140 and wants to keep living.\u00a0 He has a clone created, Matteo, who when grown will provide the organs the old man needs to prolong his life.\u00a0 The woman who raised Matteo and his body guard help him escape from his destiny as an organ donor and from Opium.\u00a0 But &#8216;safety&#8217; doesn&#8217;t turn out to be so safe.\u00a0 Will Matteo be able to make it to a place of real safety and will he be able to help those he left behind in Opium?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/01\/the-house-of-the-scorpion\/the-house-of-the-scorpion\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1798\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2021\/10\/the-house-of-the-scorpion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2021\/10\/the-house-of-the-scorpion.jpg 319w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2021\/10\/the-house-of-the-scorpion-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2021\/10\/the-house-of-the-scorpion-179x270.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>And for the end of the story, look for <em>The Lord of Opium<\/em>.\u00a0 Because the story isn&#8217;t finished, until it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gWaEQOAzScQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book trailer<\/a> by Kalli Elmer and Carleen Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Dystopian Science Fiction<br \/>\nPublished: 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start with an old favourite, Nancy Farmer&#8217;s The House of the Scorpion.Matteo lives in a dystopian world, in the region of Opium, in what used to be northern Mexico. \u00a0 El Patron, the drug lord who controls this area is already 140 and wants to keep living.\u00a0 He has a clone created, Matteo, who when grown will provide the organs the old man needs to prolong his life.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/01\/the-house-of-the-scorpion\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}