{"id":14321,"date":"2020-03-12T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/the-stand\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:25:12","slug":"the-stand","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/the-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King\u2019s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.<br \/>\n<i>\u00a0<\/i><br \/>\nA patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world\u2019s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge\u2014Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious \u201cDark Man,\u201d who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them\u2014and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.<\/p>\n<p>(This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in\u00a0<i>The Stand<\/i>:\u00a0<i>The Complete And Uncut Edition<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King\u2019s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14321","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}