{"id":7239,"date":"2016-03-04T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2016-03-06T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:27:15","slug":"thanks-ricki-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/04\/thanks-ricki-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Ricki Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/2016\/03\/03\/world-book-day-what-are-the-stars-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the Express and Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>World Book Day: What are the stars\u00a0reading?<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"isri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/wpmvc\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bookday.jpg\" alt=\"bookday\" width=\"480\" data-is-lead-sized=\"1\" \/><em>Ricki Hall recommended James Frey\u2019s novel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a biography of a Second World War hero to a literary thriller about a man born out of wedlock to a feminist leader \u2013 the favourite reads of Black Country stars are revealed as World Book Day is celebrated around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 19th year of World Book Day, a celebration of authors, illustrators and books, which aims to inspire youngsters to explore the pleasures of reading by providing them with the chance to own a book of their very own.<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton mechanic turned model Ricki Hall, aged 28, said A Million Little Pieces by James Frey was his favourite book.<\/p>\n<p>Originally sold as a memoir and later marketed as a semi-fictional novel following accusations of literary forgery, it tells how a 23-year-old alcoholic and drug abuser copes with rehabilitation in a twelve steps-orientated treatment centre.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHope you\u2019ve read the sequel, My Friend Leonard!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/entertainment\/2016\/03\/03\/world-book-day-what-are-the-stars-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Express and Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Express and Star World Book Day: What are the stars\u00a0reading? Ricki Hall recommended James Frey\u2019s novel From a biography of a Second World War hero to a literary thriller about a man born out of wedlock to a feminist leader \u2013 the favourite reads of Black Country stars are revealed as World Book [&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-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","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=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}