{"id":54,"date":"2011-06-14T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/14\/the-center-a-julian-duncan-story\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:43","slug":"the-center-a-julian-duncan-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-center-a-julian-duncan-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Center: A Julian Duncan Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Center: A Julian Duncan Story\" alt=\"book cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i1133.photobucket.com\/albums\/m589\/SnarlyKahluah\/random%20pics\/8864c707.jpg?w=1280\" \/>&nbsp;Before he worked with the police. Before he became Julian Duncan&#8230; he was Julian DeVries, a scared boy trapped at a place known only as The Center.&nbsp; His gifts were abused by cruel scientists that wanted to use him to create a race of superhuman slaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Before he worked with the police. Before he became Julian Duncan&#8230; he was Julian DeVries, a scared boy trapped at a place known only as The Center.&nbsp; His gifts were abused by cruel scientists that wanted to use him to create a race of superhuman slaves.<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-center-a-julian-duncan-story\/\" title=\"The Center: A Julian Duncan Story\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Center: A Julian Duncan Story<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[178,421],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-novels","tag-bookcover","tag-julian-duncan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":806,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/806\/","url_meta":{"origin":54,"position":0},"title":"The Center, by Harper Kingsley [science fiction, horror, novella]","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: The Center Author: Harper Kingsley Genre: sci-fi, horror Rating: Adult Word count: 16,991 Summary: Before he used his psychic gifts to work with the police. 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