{"id":207,"date":"2022-12-26T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/connect\/?p=207"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:16:09","slug":"the-waking-by-abigail-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/the-waking-by-abigail-george\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Waking&#8221; by Abigail George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.107.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.107.jpg 264w, https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/screenshot.107-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>Overview<\/h3>\n<p>Growing up isn&#8217;t supposed to be this hard. In an attempt to insulate herself from troubles at home and at school, Mariel relies on utopian fantasies playing out in her mind. However, both her parents have problems too serious to be ignored, and Mariel must rapidly mature.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Novelty Fiction on December 26, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>7 pages. Available in paperback and Kindle format via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0BR64JCNB\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Growing up isn&#8217;t supposed to be this hard. In an attempt to insulate herself from troubles at home and at school, Mariel relies on utopian fantasies playing out in her mind. However, both her parents have problems too serious to be ignored, and Mariel must rapidly mature. Published by Novelty Fiction on December 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-abigail-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novelty-fiction.com\/catalog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}