{"id":10708,"date":"2007-11-03T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/11\/03\/10708.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:41","slug":"book-report-danny-the-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/11\/03\/book-report-danny-the-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Danny, the Champion of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780375814259\">Danny, Champion of the World<\/a>. It may have been my favorite Roald Dahl, although of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/08\/12\/3056.html\">Charlie<\/a> is wonderful, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/18\/2999.html\">James<\/a> is wonderful, too. But for some reason, I always loved <I>Danny<\/I>.<br \/>\n<p>We decided to read it to the Perfect Non-Reader as a bedtime book, a chapter a night. Actually, we decided to read a Roald Dahl book, and she eenie-meenie-minie-moed her way to <I>Danny<\/I>. I was a little concerned, because (a) it&#8217;s a dark book, with a fair amount of violence and scary stuff, and (2) it&#8217;s a world far more alien to her than Droon. But she adored it.<br \/>\n<p>I also was a little startled to remember that the book is just gleeful about the lawbreaking. Mr. Dahl clearly understands that poaching is thieving, and the rationale is that it&#8217;s thieving from someone rich and bad, so it&#8217;s OK. Also, it&#8217;s so much fun! And you should always do dangerous things that are fun, right?<br \/>\n<p>There&#8217;s evidently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamstage.net\/shows\/danny_the_champion_of_the_world\">theatrical adaptation<\/a> that, from the trailer, looks rather swell. I wonder if somebody will put it on here.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn&#8217;t for some reason, talk about the ending, when all the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18153,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708\/revisions\/18153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}