{"id":95,"date":"2011-07-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2011-07-17T19:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:39:32","slug":"stand-the-complete-and-uncut-by-king-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"<u>Stand, The, Complete and Uncut<\/u>, by King, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/crow-in-flight-john-terwilliger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/crow-in-flight-john-terwilliger.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"crow-in-flight-john-terwilliger\" width=\"348\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/crow-in-flight-john-terwilliger.jpg 348w, https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/crow-in-flight-john-terwilliger-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne of the first adult genre books that I ever read, back when I was eleven or so, was Stephen King&apos;s The Stand from 1978.  I was a bit reluctant to pick it up at first because it was so big.  At 750 pages it was bigger than anything I had ever read before.  But by the end of the first chapter I was hooked.  And twelve years later when King&apos;s The Stand:  The Complete and Uncut Edition came out &#8211; at a hefty 1,100 pages, or thereabouts &#8211; I was the first in line in my home town to get it<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/199'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/199'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first adult genre books that I ever read, back when I was eleven or so, was Stephen King&apos;s The Stand from 1978. I was a bit reluctant to pick it up at first because it was so big. At 750 pages it was bigger than anything I had ever read before. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2474,2531,2507,2463,2528,2529,2502,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}