{"id":98,"date":"2006-06-09T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1149876868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1149876868\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Growing pains&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Philip Pullman is a bit like a bear with a sore paw, as a friend has described him. But beneath a gruff exterior he is by turns charming and patronising &#8211; although in the nicest possible way,&#8221; writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordstudent.com\/tt2006wk7\/Features\/growing_pains\">The Oxford Student<\/a> in a short interview with the author. Pullman talks about his college education, controversiality in His Dark Materials and his reasons for writing. He also says of the film adaptation, &#8220;I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m worried, but I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m not going to do anything about it, partly because I have no power. They bought the rights, they can do what they like with it,&#8221; and that, if Hollywood does try to &#8220;Disneyfy&#8221; his works, &#8220;there are ten million readers or something all over the world who will say this is a load of bloody rubbish.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordstudent.com\/tt2006wk7\/Features\/growing_pains\">Read more.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Philip Pullman is a bit like a bear with a sore paw, as a friend has described him. But beneath a gruff exterior he is by turns charming and patronising &#8211; although in the nicest possible way,&#8221; writes The Oxford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1149876868\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}