{"id":3338,"date":"2014-11-20T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/appeal-of-the-hunger-games\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:39:00","slug":"appeal-of-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/appeal-of-the-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal of &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15535\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kyle-longest-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15535\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15535 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/kyle-longest-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kyle Longest\" width=\"200\" height=\"239\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/239;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Kyle Longest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The latest installment of the &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; movies hits theaters this week. Why have the books and the films, which depict a bleak, totalitarian world where young people are pitted against one another in televised death matches, been so popular with young adults? Furman sociology professor Kyle Longest suggests that teens today tend to be more individualistic, and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d as opposed to the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d or the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d series, is a more individualistic type of series. Longest, whose research centers on teen development, was quoted in a <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2014\/11\/18\/mockingjay-heroine-katniss-strikes-chord-readers\/19230959\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b> article about the opening of &#8220;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment of the &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; movies hits theaters this week. Why have the books and the films, which depict a bleak, totalitarian world where young people are pitted against one another in televised death matches, been so popular with young adults? Furman sociology professor Kyle Longest suggests that teens today tend to be more individualistic, and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d as opposed to the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d or the \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d series, is a more individualistic type of series. Longest, whose research centers on teen development, was quoted in a <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2014\/11\/18\/mockingjay-heroine-katniss-strikes-chord-readers\/19230959\/\">Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b> article about the opening of &#8220;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1266771-5793343.cloudwaysapps.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}