{"id":103,"date":"2006-07-21T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1153505590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1153505590\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Evil Literary Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which baddie from a book do you secretly love? Bloomsbury are running a vote to find the nation\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s favourite literary villain in a children\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s book. <i>His Dark Materials<\/i>&#39; Mrs. Coulter has made the shortlist: &#8220;The head member of the General Oblation Board, Mrs Coulter, along with her cruel monkey daemon, secretly kidnapped children and subjected them to terrible experiments.&#8221; Philip Pullman commented, &#8220;the most evil character in any story I know is the stepmother (of course) in the Brothers Grimm tale \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153The Juniper Tree\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2. She makes Mrs Coulter look like Mary Poppins.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbadread.co.uk\/\">Place your vote<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which baddie from a book do you secretly love? Bloomsbury are running a vote to find the nation\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s favourite literary villain in a children\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s book. His Dark Materials&#39; Mrs. Coulter has made the shortlist: &#8220;The head member of the General &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1153505590\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}