{"id":178570,"date":"2025-10-04T06:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178570\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:54:06","slug":"dalek-creators-book-raises-funds-for-kent-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178570\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalek creator&#8217;s book raises funds for Kent charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the proceeds from the republication of a children&#8217;s book written by the creator of the Daleks will go to a charity helping young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terry Nation wrote Rebecca&#8217;s World \u2013 Journey to the Forbidden Planet in 1975 for and about his young daughter Rebecca, who found herself on an alien planet encountering a variety of bizarre characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To celebrate the book&#8217;s 50th anniversary, it is being reissued with \u00a31 from each sale  donated to Tunbridge Wells-based Tree of Hope, supporting children with complex healthcare needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rebecca Nation said it began as a bedtime story but &#8220;became a timeless and much-loved adventure that I hope will inspire others as much as it inspired and delighted me&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the proceeds from the republication of a children&#8217;s book written by the creator of the Daleks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}