{"id":552,"date":"2015-07-18T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/?page_id=552"},"modified":"2015-08-13T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T17:10:10","slug":"last-time-on-the-red-election-summary-of-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/the-red-election-a-serial-novel\/last-time-on-the-red-election-summary-of-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Time on The Red Election (summary of Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/time-warp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-394 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/time-warp.jpg\" alt=\"time-warp\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/time-warp.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/time-warp-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/the-red-election-chapter-1-1\/\"><strong><em>(Click here to start from the beginning!)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Last Time on The Red Election (summary of Part 1):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the year 2045, Cora Johnson (call-sign \u201cWhip,\u201d also known as \u201cButcher\u201d for her brutally effective tactics) is the 47-year-old leader of an elite Special Forces squad nicknamed the Cattlemen. Fighting for the government in the second US Civil War, her team struck into the heart of Rebel territory\u2014the Pacific Northwest\u2014to destroy a weapons facility responsible for making temporal bombs, powerful weapons based off top secret technology capable of wiping an enemy literally out of existence.<\/p>\n<p>The attack against the weapons facility doesn\u2019t go as planned, and one of the bombs accidentally goes off\u2014and teleports Cora back in time, into her seventeen-year-old body in the year 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Cora suddenly forced to navigate high school as an uncool nerd all over again, she\u2019s also lost a significant chunk of her memory\u2014specifically, everything prior to the last three years of her life as she knew it.<\/p>\n<p>As Cora stumbles through the most awkward day of high school ever, she\u2019s shocked to discover that the most popular boy in school, Quentin Rose, is also an accidental tourist from the future. She swears he\u2019s the Cattlemen\u2019s tech expert whom she only knew by his call-sign, Cog, though he denies it in the most humiliating way possible.<\/p>\n<p>Just when Cora starts to prefer warfare to high school, she gets a mysterious text on her cell phone, claiming the classmate she knows as Madison Spears will become President Madison Horvath, the woman responsible for the bloody civil war that will tear the country apart.<\/p>\n<p>And the final text? It reads: <em>Kill her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Red-Election-cover_v3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Red-Election-cover_v3.jpg\" alt=\"The-Red-Election-cover_v3\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Red-Election-cover_v3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/The-Red-Election-cover_v3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click here to start from the beginning!) Last Time on The Red Election (summary of Part 1): In the year 2045, Cora Johnson (call-sign \u201cWhip,\u201d also known as \u201cButcher\u201d for her brutally effective tactics) is the 47-year-old leader of an elite Special Forces squad nicknamed the Cattlemen. Fighting for the government in the second US &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/the-red-election-a-serial-novel\/last-time-on-the-red-election-summary-of-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Time on The Red Election (summary of Part 1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9Vyi8-8U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions\/643"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}