{"id":50,"date":"2005-11-28T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1133212211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1133212211\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Pullman&#39;s Aladdin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-time champion of children&#39;s theatre, Pullman has penned a new stage version of the classic story to go on show this December. &#8221; My first Aladdin may have been a pantomime, or a Ladybird book, or a story in a child&#39;s edition of The Arabian Nights &#8211; I simply can&#39;t remember, and it doesn&#39;t matter. What mattered then was the sequence of wondrous events and the emotional colours they were suffused in: comedy, delight, suspense, fear, and not least that very suspect thing, the exotic, the oriental.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,6903,1651393,00.html\">Read more<\/a>. There&#39;s also an interesting article in the Independant about the current mini-revival of British panto, which features some quotes from Pullman &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/theatre\/news\/article329771.ece\">read it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-time champion of children&#39;s theatre, Pullman has penned a new stage version of the classic story to go on show this December. &#8221; My first Aladdin may have been a pantomime, or a Ladybird book, or a story in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1133212211\/\">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-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}