{"id":1828,"date":"2021-11-05T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:14:01","slug":"gary-paulsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/05\/gary-paulsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I’m introducing two books, both by the same author.\u00a0 One is a novel that is an old favourite, the story Gary Paulsen is most known for.\u00a0 The other is a very recently released memoir.
\n\"\"<\/a>Hatchet<\/em> is an adventure and survival story.\u00a0 Brian is flying across the Canadian wilderness on a visit to his father.\u00a0 The small plane in which he is travelling crashes and he is the only survivor.\u00a0 With only a windbreaker and a hatchet, Brian must use “his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive”.
\n\"\"<\/a>Earlier this year, Paulsen, now 80 years old, published a memoir of his youth, Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood<\/em>.\u00a0 This story is one of adventure (most often not the good kind) and a childhood that sounds more like story than truth.\u00a0 And yet it is a story of what made him the man and the author he became.
\nSadly, Gary Paulsen passed away a month ago.\u00a0 It is fitting therefore, to celebrate the man and his work, with old and new.<\/p>\n

Genre: Adventure \/ Survival
\nPublished: 1987 \/ 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I’m introducing two books, both by the same author.\u00a0 One is a novel that is an old favourite, the story Gary Paulsen is most known for.\u00a0 The other is a very recently released memoir. Hatchet is an adventure and survival story.\u00a0 Brian is flying across the Canadian wilderness on a visit to his father.\u00a0 The small plane in which he is travelling crashes and he is the only survivor.\u00a0 Read More …<\/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":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}