{"id":11140,"date":"2019-04-15T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T18:47:06","slug":"thresholds-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/thresholds-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"An exploration of the thresholds between life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/04\/BookofDreams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11142\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/04\/BookofDreams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a>Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam\u2014a thirteen-year old with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction\u2014waits by his father\u2019s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/thresholds-life-and-death\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/11143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}