{"id":509965,"date":"2023-09-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/?p=509965"},"modified":"2023-09-12T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:55:35","slug":"roald-dahl-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/roald-dahl-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Roald Dahl Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Roald Dahl was a British popular author of children&#8217;s literature and short stories, a poet, and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called &#8220;one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In books like \u201cMatilda\u201d, \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d, and \u201cJames and the Giant Peach\u201d, Dahl brought readers into his wildly original imagination with richly detailed worlds, zany characters, and touching storylines. His children\u2019s books feature villainous adults, heroic child protagonists, and fanciful worlds, and have been adapted into dozens of plays and films.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509966 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Roald-Dahl.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Though best known for his children\u2019s fantasy novels, Dahl also wrote adult fiction, short stories, and screenplays for hit films like \u201cChitty Chitty Bang Bang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His writing style is known for its unique, often original vocabulary, humorous poems, and ability to write from a child\u2019s perspective. His books, though full of dark undercurrents and macabre settings, ultimately show good and kind children triumphing over evil, greedy adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roald Dahl was a British popular author of children&#8217;s literature and short stories, a poet, and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called &#8220;one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century&#8221;. In books like \u201cMatilda\u201d, \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d, and \u201cJames and the Giant Peach\u201d, Dahl brought readers into his wildly original imagination with richly detailed worlds, zany characters, and touching storylines. His children\u2019s books feature villainous adults, heroic child protagonists, and fanciful worlds, and have been adapted into dozens of plays and films. Though best known for his children\u2019s fantasy novels, Dahl also wrote adult fiction, short stories, and screenplays for hit films like \u201cChitty Chitty Bang Bang.\u201d His writing style is known for its unique, often original vocabulary, humorous poems, and ability to write from a child\u2019s perspective. His books, though full of dark undercurrents and macabre settings, ultimately show good and kind children triumphing over evil, greedy adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[468,427],"tags":[36,181,10,116,81,70,12,185],"class_list":["post-509965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","category-just-for-fun","tag-author","tag-books-2","tag-ebooks","tag-ereaders-2","tag-publishing","tag-readers","tag-reading","tag-writing-2"],"views":1747,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509968,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509965\/revisions\/509968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}