{"id":768,"date":"2008-07-15T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2008-07-15T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:24:09","slug":"the-wonderful-story-of-henry-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/the-wonderful-story-of-henry-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roald Dahl is best known for <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> and <em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter is a huge fan of Roald Dahl. She has several of his books, not the whole collection.<\/p>\n<p>I actually think some of his themes, especially the short stories for adults, are a little twisted.<\/p>\n<p>If you have not read other Roald Dahl&#8217;s books, at least read the short story of <em>The Wonder Story of Henry Sugar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how to explain this story to do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>It illustrates something about the meaning of life, the vanity of riches, the disgust of a selfish wasted life &#8211; all that in a simple story of Henry Sugar written so a 2nd grader can read and understand it &#8211; truly a great story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roald Dahl is best known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. My daughter is a huge fan of Roald Dahl. She has several of his books, not the whole collection. I actually think some of his themes, especially the short stories for adults, are a little twisted. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}