{"id":8459,"date":"2022-07-18T02:06:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/?p=8459"},"modified":"2022-07-18T02:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:09:30","slug":"did-you-know-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/did-you-know-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Charles Dickens had a passion for hypnosis. The author of classics like <em>Oliver Twist<\/em> attended a number of lectures on the practice of mesmerism. Which might explain why you zoned out from pages 6 \u2013 279 of <em>Bleak House<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens also gave himself a number of unusual nicknames, including \u2018The Sparkler of Albion,\u2019 \u2018The Inimitable,\u2019 \u2018Revolver\u2019 and \u2018Resurrectionist.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Great Expectations<\/em> author loved his pet raven, Grip, so much that when it died, he had it stuffed and mounted in his study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickens suffered from obsessive-compulsive behavior, combed his hair 20 times a day and, when staying in hotels, would immediately rearrange all the furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens had a passion for hypnosis. The author of classics like Oliver Twist attended a number of lectures on the practice of mesmerism. Which might explain why you zoned out from pages 6 \u2013 279 of Bleak House. Dickens also gave himself a number of unusual nicknames, including \u2018The Sparkler of Albion,\u2019 \u2018The Inimitable,\u2019 \u2018Revolver\u2019 and \u2018Resurrectionist.\u2019 The Great Expectations author loved his pet raven, Grip, so much that when it died, he had it stuffed and mounted in his study. Dickens suffered from obsessive-compulsive behavior, combed his hair 20 times a day and, when staying in hotels, would immediately rearrange all the furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-just-for-fun"],"views":525,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459","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=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}