{"id":728,"date":"2009-03-21T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/dfc-falls-victim-to-economic-crisis\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T02:32:28","slug":"dfc-falls-victim-to-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/dfc-falls-victim-to-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"DFC falls victim to economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Philip Pullman&#8217;s &#8220;Adventures of John Blake&#8221; (illustrated by John Aggs) will be sad to discover that David Fickling Books will no longer be publishing the DFC weekly comic strip due to financial difficulties.  &#8220;Everyone connected with the comic hopes that the DFC will rise again one day, and so do thousands of readers, but the story of John Blake must be told.&#8221;  On his official site, the author indicated that he would complete the story as a graphic novel and for film.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/pages\/news\/index.asp?NewsID=35\">Read more<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>For now, the official site of &#8220;John Blake&#8221; is still available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedfc.co.uk\/strips\/john-blake\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Philip Pullman&#8217;s &#8220;Adventures of John Blake&#8221; (illustrated by John Aggs) will be sad to discover that David Fickling Books will no longer be publishing the DFC weekly comic strip due to financial difficulties. &#8220;Everyone connected with the comic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/dfc-falls-victim-to-economic-crisis\/\">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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-fickling-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}