{"id":2993,"date":"2006-06-06T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:26","slug":"summer-read-sheep-girl-makes-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"A SUMMER READ: Sheep Girl Makes Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like getting into a good fantasy, and since Giannine&#8217;s cruddy father at least has the decency to have his secretary ask her what she wants for her birthday, she can choose what she wants: a pricey half hour of the Rasmussen Gaming Center&#8217;s virtual reality game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=0152045600\">Heir Apparent<\/a>. It&#8217;s cloaks, it&#8217;s daggers, it&#8217;s castles and wizards; it&#8217;s dungeons and dragons and strange tastes and weird smells and velvets and brocade more.  And, best of all, it&#8217;s fantasy. It&#8217;s not thinking about her life &#8211; or her horrible parents &#8211; for what feels like a three whole days.<\/p>\n<p>When Giannine gets to the gaming center, there&#8217;s a protest in progress. Citizens to Protect Our Children (CPOC) is up in arms and waving signs, but Giannine doesn&#8217;t care &#8211; she just wants to play. It&#8217;s a good place to forget that her dad hardly ever sees her, and doesn&#8217;t seem to care much about her. After all, he chucked her with her grandma, and made her mother get a <i>paternity test<\/i> to prove she was his when they got divorced. It&#8217;s better to just ignore reality for awhile, and Heir Apparent seems like a tricky enough game for Giannine to get her wish.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s before something goes wrong with a game! There&#8217;s only one way out &#8212; winning. And Giannine can&#8217;t figure it out. She&#8217;s just supposed to get the magic ring, find a treasure, answer a riddle, make up a poem, escape from some ghosts and steal something from a man-eating dragon. I mean, how hard could it be? It&#8217;s only a game!<br \/>But, this time it&#8217;s more. And Giannine is running out of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember choose your own adventure novels? This is even cooler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like getting into a good fantasy, and since Giannine&#8217;s cruddy father at least has the decency to have his secretary ask her&#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":[5],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","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=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}