{"id":5515,"date":"2017-09-06T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/06\/david-walliams-book-dragged-into-australias-same-sex-marriage-debate\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:43:14","slug":"david-walliams-book-dragged-into-australias-same-sex-marriage-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=5515","title":{"rendered":"David Walliams book dragged into Australia&#039;s same-sex marriage debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boy in the Dress, his tale of a cross-dressing child, has drawn accusations of \u2018genderless bullying\u2019 after it was featured in a supermarket promotion David Walliams has reacted to Australians complaining about his novel The Boy in the Dress, saying he wrote it hoping to \u201cchange the way people think and feel\u201d, after Aldi customers slammed the supermarket for \u201cpushing social agendas\u201d by selling his book about a cross-dressing child.On Aldi Australia\u2019s Facebook page, where the retailer had announced a competition to win books, customers wrote that Aldi \u201cshould not be selling\u201d Walliams\u2019s story of a boy who wears a friend\u2019s dress to school, accusing it of \u201cpushing social agendas\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/sep\/06\/david-walliams--australia-same-sex-marriage-debate-the-boy-in-the-dress\" target=\"_blank\">David Walliams book dragged into Australia&#039;s same-sex marriage debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boy in the Dress, his tale of a cross-dressing child, has drawn accusations of \u2018genderless bullying\u2019 after it was featured in a supermarket promotion David Walliams has reacted to Australians complaining about his novel The Boy in the Dress, saying he wrote it hoping to \u201cchange the way people [&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-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","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=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}