{"id":5445,"date":"2025-09-06T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:45:06","slug":"boring-book-by-suffolk-author-aims-to-send-children-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5445\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boring&#8217; book by Suffolk author aims to send children to sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;boring&#8221; children&#8217;s book aims to put youngsters to sleep before they reach its ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The book is the idea of Will Hackett-Jones, from Needham Market, Suffolk, who struggled to get his daughter Katie to sleep during a long-haul flight and so came up with the idea of telling her a dull bedtime story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After it worked, he thought it could be an opportunity to help others, so he wrote The Old Wooden House \u2013 a story with no plot or excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now living in St Petersburg, Russia, Mr Hackett-Jones said it had successfully worked on other children, but not many knew the ending as they had already fallen asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;boring&#8221; children&#8217;s book aims to put youngsters to sleep before they reach its ending. The book is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-5445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}