{"id":15,"date":"2022-09-05T01:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/?p=15"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:09:06","slug":"its-all-greek-to-me-lightningthief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/2022\/09\/05\/its-all-greek-to-me-lightningthief\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Greek to Me (#LightningThief)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am dragged along by a strange new force. \u00a0Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. \u00a0I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ovid, <em>Metamorphoses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Russell Riordan, Jr., aka Rick Riordan, put out his first book <em>Big Red Tequila<\/em> in 1997.\u00a0 He attended the University of North Texas (Denton), where I have taken some exams.\u00a0 How then should we evaluate <em>The Lightning Thief<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Besides attacking Math Teachers, chapter one is &#8220;I Accidentally Vaporize My Maths Teacher,&#8221; I have concerns regarding stealers of lightning.\u00a0 Consider how the story starts:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look, I didn&#8217;t want to be a half-blood. \u00a0If you&#8217;re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. \u00a0Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. \u00a0Being a half-blood is dangerous. \u00a0It&#8217;s scary. \u00a0Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways. \u00a0If you&#8217;re a normal kid, reading this because you think it&#8217;s fiction, great. \u00a0Read on. \u00a0I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened. \u00a0But if you recognize yourself in these pages &#8211; if you feel something stirring inside &#8211; stop reading immediately. \u00a0You might be one of us. \u00a0And once you know that, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they&#8217;ll come for you. \u00a0Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n<p>More here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/adamslostdream.blogspot.com\/2022\/08\/its-all-greek-to-me-lightningthief.html<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2022\/09\/Lightning-Thief-Percy-Jackson-Riordan-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2022\/09\/Lightning-Thief-Percy-Jackson-Riordan-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2022\/09\/Lightning-Thief-Percy-Jackson-Riordan-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2022\/09\/Lightning-Thief-Percy-Jackson-Riordan.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am dragged along by a strange new force. \u00a0Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. \u00a0I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.\u201d &#8212; Ovid, Metamorphoses &nbsp; Richard Russell Riordan, Jr., aka Rick Riordan, put out his first book Big Red Tequila in 1997.\u00a0 He attended the University of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/2022\/09\/05\/its-all-greek-to-me-lightningthief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s All Greek to Me (#LightningThief)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/totalyouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}