{"id":19802,"date":"2017-12-17T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/17\/your-guide-to-a-happy-new-year-by-dawn-eddie-and-other-celebrity-self-help-gurus\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T01:05:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T00:05:16","slug":"your-guide-to-a-happy-new-year-by-dawn-eddie-and-other-celebrity-self-help-gurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=19802","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to a happy new year\u2026 by Dawn, Eddie and other celebrity self-help gurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous faces, including many comedians with tales of recovery from their own traumas, are dispensing life lessons in the latest publishing trendOnce the post-Christmas slump lifts and 2018 looms, an unprecedented crowd of well-known faces will be waiting to take readers by the hand and guide them into the new year. Following a tide of celebrity autobiographies, celebrity novels and celebrity children\u2019s fiction, this year the book-shaped gift under the tree is more likely to be a celebrity self-help manual.Comforting and instructive life manuals written by well-known entertainers and performers are being heavily promoted this season as booksellers bank on a public thirst for sincere advice from familiar, if unexpected, stars. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/dec\/17\/celebrity-self-help-books-publishing-trend-dawn-french-eddie-izzard\" target=\"_blank\">Your guide to a happy new year\u2026 by Dawn, Eddie and other celebrity self-help gurus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous faces, including many comedians with tales of recovery from their own traumas, are dispensing life lessons in the latest publishing trendOnce the post-Christmas slump lifts and 2018 looms, an unprecedented crowd of well-known faces will be waiting to take readers by the hand and guide them into the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}