{"id":4423,"date":"2024-10-14T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?page_id=4423"},"modified":"2024-10-14T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:45:20","slug":"billy-liar-1969","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?page_id=4423","title":{"rendered":"Billy Liar &#8211; 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\" wp-block-image size-full eplus-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"666\" data-attachment-id=\"4424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/?attachment_id=4424\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"828,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33.jpeg 828w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33-768x618.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33-500x402.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9F125FE4-7607-4BAD-97D9-19EFF9675E33-800x643.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Billy Liar<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical, and a TV series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">The semi-comical story is about William Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in\u00a0Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a lowly clerk\u00a0for an\u00a0undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Liar\u00a0is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical, and a TV series. The semi-comical story is about William Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in\u00a0Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a lowly clerk\u00a0for an\u00a0undertaker, Billy spends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"header-footer-only","meta":{"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4423","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4423\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tads.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}