{"id":376,"date":"2007-03-01T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-03-01T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T08:16:23","slug":"world-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 10th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/\">World Book Day<\/a>. Although mainly aimed at kids, to celebrate the 10th anniversary, there&#8217;s been a special feature this year for adults who have been invited to nominate the 10 books that they could not do without. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbookday.com\/documents\/10%20books%20wbd%20news%20story.pdf\">full results<\/a> are published today with a top 100 list analysed by age and region.<br \/>\nThe number 1 spot goes to &#8220;Pride And Prejudice&#8221; by Jane Austen which I&#8217;ve nver read. In fact, I&#8217;ve only read 21 of the top 100. What about you?<br \/>\nOne of the three works in the top 10 that I have read is the wonderful &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; by Philip Pullman which is actually a trilogy totalling 1,300 pages. You can read my reviews of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM1\">&#8220;Northern Lights&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM2\">&#8220;The Subtle Knife&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM3\">&#8220;The Amber Spyglass&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 10th annual World Book Day. Although mainly aimed at kids, to celebrate the 10th anniversary, there&#8217;s been a special feature this year for adults who have been invited to nominate the 10 books that they could not do without. The full results are published today with a top 100 list analysed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}