{"id":477,"date":"2007-04-18T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=477"},"modified":"2010-01-10T15:53:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:53:27","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xlix-great-expectations-presented-as-a-log-flume-im-not-making-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/04\/filler-by-proxy-xlix-great-expectations-presented-as-a-log-flume-im-not-making-this-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XLIX: &#8220;Great Expectations presented as a log flume&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m not making this up."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been to the opera, but I can&#8217;t post about it today: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/04\/great_forebodings_about_dicken.html\">I&#8217;m off to Dickens World<\/a>!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Never mind that the books tackle child exploitation, poverty, murder and domestic violence; the indoor attraction is based on designs by the creator of Santa World in Sweden so the emphasis is firmly on fun, fun, fun.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dickens World feels like Disney gone to the dark side. In place of the Magic Kingdom there is Newgate Prison; instead of talking animals there will be shady characters loitering in dark corners. Although the attractions are all faithfully Dickensian, the larks are very much 21st century&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The whole project cost \u00a362m and hopes to present Dickens to coaches of schoolchildren without having to call in the Muppets for backup. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s all within a day-trip from my house, apparently.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been to the opera, but I can&#8217;t post about it today: I&#8217;m off to Dickens World! Never mind that the books tackle child exploitation, poverty, murder and domestic violence; the indoor attraction is based on designs by the creator of Santa World in Sweden so the emphasis is firmly on fun, fun, fun. Dickens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}