{"id":76742,"date":"2025-03-21T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-author-ann-patchett-bought-a-bookshop-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:43:45","slug":"why-author-ann-patchett-bought-a-bookshop-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-author-ann-patchett-bought-a-bookshop-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Author Ann Patchett bought a bookshop | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling author Ann Patchett has earned a global fanbase for her novels, including The Dutch House, Commonwealth, and Bel Canto.<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\nShe spoke to the BBC\u2019s Katty Kay about her journey as a writer, life without a mobile phone, and the unexpected joy she found from owning a bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re watching Influential with Katty Kay, a weekly programme where the BBC&#8217;s Katty sits down for in-depth conversations with some of the most powerful and change-making people in the worlds of culture, business, science, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>#Books #Reading #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling author Ann Patchett has earned a global fanbase for her novels, including The Dutch House, Commonwealth, and Bel Canto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}