{"id":1174,"date":"2009-04-03T22:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/03\/roald-dahls-writing-hut-virtual-tour\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T22:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:51:49","slug":"roald-dahls-writing-hut-virtual-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/03\/roald-dahls-writing-hut-virtual-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Roald Dahl&#8217;s Writing Hut Virtual Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/roalddahlhut.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This makes me laugh every time I see it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve ever seen on the web related to a famous writer.\u00a0 So, it would seem that the great children&#8217;s author, Roald Dahl, wrote all of his books, like <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, James and the Giant Peach<\/em>, and <em>Danny the Champion of the World<\/em>, in a tiny, dilapidated, filthy old shack in his backyard.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture of his ratty worn-out armchair.\u00a0 Imagine what went on in this tiny room!\u00a0 His brain was exploding with all those stories and fantastic characters and he was probably fighting the drafts and killing bugs the whole time.\u00a0 I can totally understand what he must have loved about his little &#8216;writing hut.&#8217;\u00a0 It was probably his perfect little creative world.<\/p>\n<p>You can look all around Mr. Dahl&#8217;s hut with the online virtual tour at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roalddahlmuseum.org\/discoverdahl\/exploring\/default.aspx\"><em>Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center web site<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=b108a061-a106-8f13-b06c-ba21669bf1c9\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes me laugh every time I see it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve ever seen on the web related to a famous writer.\u00a0 So, it would seem that the great children&#8217;s author, Roald Dahl, wrote all of his books, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,119],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-writing","tag-museum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}