{"id":1358,"date":"2014-05-04T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/?page_id=1358"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:58:00","slug":"damien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/damien\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Damien-Oscar-Donald-Erickson\/product-reviews\/1460204891\/ref=dpx_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DamienCoverWeb2Inch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DamienCoverWeb2Inch\" width=\"144\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1284\" style=\"PADDING-RIGHT: 5px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I just finished Damien, and want to read more!  I really enjoyed the book, and couldn&#8217;t put it down &#8211; even though I&#8217;m really too busy to read these days. It gave me the same feeling as a Michael Chrichton novel- very thought provoking, and would make a great screenplay. I rated it 5 stars on Amazon.&#8221;<br \/>\nEmmy Award Winner, Cliff Garbutt<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Damien <\/em>is a thriller centred on genetic modification which results in a person who is attractive and powerfully dangerous. He turns out to be a symbol of rebirth to an ancient culture struggling to re-establish itself in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Oscar Donald Erickson, former writer for the CBC and brother to iconic Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, this novel explores the emotional and psychological implications of integrating a genetically modified individual into society while taking the reader on a wild ride through Latin American politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I just finished Damien, and want to read more! I really enjoyed the book, and couldn&#8217;t put it down &#8211; even though I&#8217;m really too busy to read these days. It gave me the same feeling as a Michael Chrichton novel- very thought provoking, and would make a great screenplay. I rated it 5 stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1358\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}