{"id":12945,"date":"2013-11-24T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12945"},"modified":"2013-11-24T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:08:18","slug":"the-rise-and-rise-of-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12945","title":{"rendered":"The rise and rise of &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed reading the trilogy by Suzanne Collins: &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#THG\">here<\/a>], &#8220;Catching Fire&#8221;\u00a0[my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#CF\">here<\/a>]\u00a0and &#8220;Mockingjay&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Mockingjay\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I always knew that it would make a terrific set of films and I thought that the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I saw the first movie in the new franchise: &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsH-I.html#THG1\">here<\/a>] and, this weekend, I went to see &#8220;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&#8221;\u00a0[my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsH-I.html#THG2\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thoroughly enjoyed reading the trilogy by Suzanne Collins: &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; [my review here], &#8220;Catching Fire&#8221;\u00a0[my review here]\u00a0and &#8220;Mockingjay&#8221; [my review here]. I always knew that it would make a terrific set of films and I thought that the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen was perfect. Last year, I saw the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12945"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}