{"id":110,"date":"2019-02-12T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=110"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:07:47","slug":"show-stopper-the-deadliest-show-on-earth-by-hayley-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/show-stopper-the-deadliest-show-on-earth-by-hayley-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Stopper (The deadliest show on Earth) by Hayley Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61t1h7DyqVL._SX319_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"308\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Show Stopper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A dazzling, high-octane read filled with death-defying acrobatics, circus crowds with an appetite for disaster, and two forbidden teenage lovers trying to escape the shackles of their very different lives. Set in a near-future England where the poorest people in the land must watch their children be taken by a travelling circus \u2013 to perform at the mercy of hungry lions, sabotaged high wires and a demonic ringmaster. The ruling class visit the circus as an escape from their structured, high-achieving lives \u2013 pure entertainment with a bloodthirsty edge. Ben, the teenage son of a draconian government minister, visits the circus for the first time and falls instantly in love with Hoshiko, a young performer. They come from harshly different worlds \u2013 but must join together to escape the circus and put an end to its brutal sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dazzling, high-octane read filled with death-defying acrobatics, circus crowds with an appetite for disaster, and two forbidden teenage lovers trying to escape the shackles of their very different lives. Set in a near-future England where the poorest people in the land must watch their children be taken by a travelling circus \u2013 to perform &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/02\/12\/show-stopper-the-deadliest-show-on-earth-by-hayley-barker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Show Stopper (The deadliest show on Earth) by Hayley Barker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}