{"id":6451,"date":"2015-05-01T23:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T06:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6451"},"modified":"2015-05-01T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T06:26:42","slug":"biggest-book-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/01\/biggest-book-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Book Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/author-aims-to-set-new-guinness-world-record-with.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Paste Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Author Aims to Set New Guinness World Record with World\u2019s Largest Published Novel<\/h1>\n<div class=\"byline\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #474747;\">By\u00a0<a class=\"ovr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=jennifer+champagne\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Champagne<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pastemagazine.com\/www\/articles\/BaruwaMain.jpg?635661189123306422\" alt=\"Author Aims to Set New Guinness World Record with World&amp;#8217;s Largest Published Novel\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yahaya Baruwa, 27-year-old best-selling Canadian author, aims to do more than just release another commercial success, but also\u00a0<a style=\"color: #00c2e8;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1563146211\/worlds-largest-published-novel\" target=\"_blank\">release the world\u2019s largest published novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Struggles of a Dreamer: The Battle Between a Dreamer and Tradition<\/i>\u00a0will measure 8 ft. 5 in. high and 5 ft. 5 in. wide, resulting in an 11 ft. length when fully opened. The novel will be approximately 200 pages and bound in hardcover, rendered in full color. Due to its size,\u00a0<i>Struggles of a Dreamer<\/i>\u00a0will be crafted by hand, made from a combination of aluminum and tear-resistant paper, all sewn together with nylon stitching.<\/p>\n<p>The novel seems to draw from the author\u2019s own experiences of being a Nigerian immigrant, with characters Tunde, a beggar on the streets of New York City, and Toku\u2019te, the son of a farmer in a faraway land, both testing the boundaries of tradition.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/author-aims-to-set-new-guinness-world-record-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading in Paste<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Paste Magazine Author Aims to Set New Guinness World Record with World\u2019s Largest Published Novel By\u00a0Jennifer Champagne Yahaya Baruwa, 27-year-old best-selling Canadian author, aims to do more than just release another commercial success, but also\u00a0release the world\u2019s largest published novel. Struggles of a Dreamer: The Battle Between a Dreamer and Tradition\u00a0will measure 8 ft. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}