{"id":10604,"date":"2019-10-09T20:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:13:25","slug":"ive-only-ever-read-roald-dahls-fiction-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/09\/ive-only-ever-read-roald-dahls-fiction-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve only ever read Roald Dahl&#8217;s fiction for children&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10102019-03.jpg\" alt=\"I've only ever read Roald Dahl's fiction for children. Now that I've read his &quot;Lamb to the Slaughter&quot; its amazing how dark his work can be.\" class=\"wp-image-10596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10102019-03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10102019-03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10102019-03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10102019-03-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>I&#8217;ve only ever read Roald Dahl&#8217;s fiction for children. Now that I&#8217;ve read his &#8220;Lamb to the Slaughter&#8221; its amazing how dark his work can be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously, after enjoying James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a little wall, those short stories &#8211; especially that one &#8211; were quite a shock.  Although there were some pretty harsh elements even in his children&#8217;s lit, including Aunt Spiker and Aunte Sponge&#8230; and their fate. We have many works by and about Dahl; check the catalog at library.bc.edu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, after enjoying James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a little wall, those short stories &#8211; especially that one &#8211; were quite a shock. Although there were some pretty harsh elements even in his children&#8217;s lit, including Aunt Spiker and Aunte Sponge&#8230; and their fate. We have many works &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/09\/ive-only-ever-read-roald-dahls-fiction-for-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve only ever read Roald Dahl&#8217;s fiction for children&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[836],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}