{"id":1792,"date":"2008-10-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:02","slug":"quantum-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"A Quantum Leap &#8212; !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fluxnow.com\/product.php?ean=9780738714059\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/fluxnow.com\/_theme\/product_images\/200\/9780738714059.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Oh, Amber&#8217;s day has basically just gone from bad to worse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if getting lost <i>by a cemetery<\/i> on the way to a party is fun &#8212; and then falling into a patch of nettles and messing up her outfit, when she <i>so<\/i> wanted to look pulled together in front of the new girl, Trinidad, to whom she&#8217;d offered a ride to this thing. Even though she meets a boy, overhearing a nasty comment from the hostess that she&#8217;s basically a loser tag-along really ruins everything for her.<\/p>\n<p>Amber goes home, then.<br \/>And gets hit by a mail truck.<\/p>\n<p>Some people just <i>cannot<\/i> catch a break.<\/p>\n<p>After Amber&#8217;s near-death experience, when Grammy Greta tries to direct her back to Life, she takes a wrong turn &#8212; and ends up inhabiting the body of the most popular girl in school &#8212; one who&#8217;s missed a few days, due to&#8230; a suicide attempt? <\/p>\n<p>Amber is disbelieving, and frantic. And, she&#8217;s also&#8230; stuck.<\/p>\n<p>They say you never understand a person &#8217;til you walk a mile in their shoes.<br \/>Amber might have a bit to say on <i>that<\/i> one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=  br \/9780738714059\" target=_blank>Buy <i>Dead Girl Walking<\/i> from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Amber&#8217;s day has basically just gone from bad to worse. It&#8217;s not as if getting lost by a cemetery on the way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,5],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}