{"id":61346,"date":"2021-11-16T06:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=61346"},"modified":"2021-11-16T06:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:27:49","slug":"legendary-author-wilbur-smith-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/legendary-author-wilbur-smith-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary author Wilbur Smith passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Renowned writer&nbsp;Wilbur Smith&nbsp;(88) passed away at his home in&nbsp;South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his decades-long career as a writer, Smith authored 49 novels and sold over 140 million copies worldwide in more than 30 languages. In 1964, the author published his first novel,\u00a0&#8220;When the Lion Feeds,&#8221;\u00a0which narrates the tale of a young man growing up on a\u00a0South African\u00a0cattle ranch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned writer&nbsp;Wilbur Smith&nbsp;(88) passed away at his home in&nbsp;South Africa. During his decades-long career as a writer, Smith authored 49 novels and sold over 140 million copies worldwide in more than 30 languages. In 1964, the author published his first novel,\u00a0&#8220;When the Lion Feeds,&#8221;\u00a0which narrates the tale of a young man growing up on a\u00a0South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":61347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2238],"tags":[1801],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-61346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2021","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61348,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346\/revisions\/61348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61346"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=61346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}