{"id":27785,"date":"2023-02-21T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/21\/should-the-language-in-roald-dahls-books-be-changed\/"},"modified":"2023-02-21T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T13:09:13","slug":"should-the-language-in-roald-dahls-books-be-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=27785","title":{"rendered":"Should the language in Roald Dahl&#8217;s books be changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The removal of some references to words describing characters&#8217; appearance and weight in Roald Dahl&#8217;s books has sparked a fierce debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Roald Dahl&#8217;s estate and publisher said works including The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had been updated to be more suitable for modern audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his feelings on the changes know, saying works of fiction should be &#8220;preserved and not airbrushed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The author was born in Cardiff, and BBC Wales Today presenter Jennifer Jones asked people in Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff Bay what they thought.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-64720012?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The removal of some references to words describing characters&#8217; appearance and weight in Roald Dahl&#8217;s books has sparked a fierce debate. Roald Dahl&#8217;s estate and publisher said works including &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}