{"id":280,"date":"2003-05-17T21:52:44","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T21:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/05\/bbc_big_read_to\/"},"modified":"2003-05-17T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2003-05-17T21:52:44","slug":"bbc_big_read_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/bbc_big_read_to\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Big Read Top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the BBC&#8217;s top 100 books have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/bigread\/top100.shtml\">published<\/a>, and they&#8217;re a bit disappointing.<br \/>\nHarry Potter&#8217;s there in abundance &#8211; surely it should be counted as one book like Lord of the Rings? Then there are books like Animal Farm which are evidently books people read at school for O Level or GCSE. And of course there are the middle class contemporary &#8220;classics&#8221; like Captain Correlli.<br \/>\nMind you, I&#8217;m probably just bitter because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141187492\">Scoop<\/a> didn&#8217;t make the cut. Mind you, I never got around to voting for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the BBC&#8217;s top 100 books have been published, and they&#8217;re a bit disappointing. Harry Potter&#8217;s there in abundance &#8211; surely it should be counted as one book like Lord of the Rings? Then there are books like Animal Farm which are evidently books people read at school for O Level or GCSE. And of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}