{"id":616,"date":"2008-03-20T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/because-he%e2%80%99s-the-honourable-cowboy-the-western-hero\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T03:32:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T22:32:27","slug":"because-hes-the-honourable-cowboy-the-western-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/because-hes-the-honourable-cowboy-the-western-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because he&#8217;s the honourable cowboy, the Western hero.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article_images\/articledir_1128\/564281\/1_listing.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\">Philip Pullman speaks to free lance journalist A.S.H. Smyth in this Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/features\/564281\/pullman-gives-god-a-break-for-easter.thtml\">Spectator<\/a> about his upcoming book Once Upon a Time in the North and especially Lee Scoresby.  Moving beyond God and towards British politics, globalisation, and the environment, Pullman arrives at a story where Lee and Iorek Byrnison, &#8220;finding that their interests mutually coincide with those of a Dutch merchant whose cargo has been illegally impounded, pool their strengths, automatically and almost wordlessly, in defence of the little man,&#8221; upon inspiration from The Magnificent Seven.  Fans will also discover the origins of Lee&#8217;s balloon and Winchester rifle.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/features\/564281\/pullman-gives-god-a-break-for-easter.thtml\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Once Upon a Time in the North<\/i> comes out April 3rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman speaks to free lance journalist A.S.H. Smyth in this Tuesday&#8217;s Spectator about his upcoming book Once Upon a Time in the North and especially Lee Scoresby. Moving beyond God and towards British politics, globalisation, and the environment, Pullman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/because-hes-the-honourable-cowboy-the-western-hero\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-once-upon-a-time-in-the-north","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}