{"id":460,"date":"2012-01-09T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-01-09T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:13:40","slug":"war-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/war-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"War Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/warhorse.jpg?resize=240%2C146\" alt=\"war horse\" width=\"240\" height=\"146\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"See War Horse on Amazon.co.uk here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/War-Horse-Michael-Morpurgo\/dp\/1405226668\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326121885&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">War Horse<\/a>, that amazing book written by <a title=\"Michael Morpurgo - War Horse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmorpurgo.com\/books\/war-horse\/\">Michael Morpurgo<\/a>, and dramatised in the West End at the <a title=\"The War Horse- National Theatre\" href=\"http:\/\/warhorselondon.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/\">New London Theatre <\/a> will shortly be available at the movies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steven Spielberg's latest film production, <a title=\"War Horse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamworksstudios.com\/films\/war-horse\">War Horse<\/a>, is opening at cinemas on January 13th. It has already been acclaimed for its powerful and thought provoking message.<\/p>\n<p>With a great line up of actors, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Emily Watson and Peter Mullen, and over 200 horses, trained by Bobby Lovgren the film shows the story of the relationship between a boy and a horse.<\/p>\n<p>But yet, there is so much more.... more than a million horses were sent to the front during the first World War,only 62,000 returned. The horse, Joey,is taken through so many different places and into such horrendous situations. It is a tale of endurance, courage and the pitiful way that war treats humans and animals alike.<\/p>\n<p>There are many newspaper editorials, but try <a title=\"The Observer - War Horse\" href=\"http:\/\/events.charlotteobserver.com\/reviews\/show\/14109184-review-war-horse\">The Observer <\/a> or The <a title=\"The Guardian - War Horse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/movie\/142607\/war-horse\">Guardian <\/a> for some extra information.<\/p>\n<p>A remarkable film, an outstanding theatre production and an even better story, written and developed by <a title=\"See a catalogue of books by Michael Morpurgo on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=Michael+Morpurgo\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Morpurgo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See you at the movies<\/p>\n<p>Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p><em>You can buy the book through <a title=\"Dolphin Booksellers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/\">Dolphin Booksellers<\/a>- the best in children's books always on line<\/em><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; War Horse, that amazing book written by Michael Morpurgo, and dramatised in the West End at the New London Theatre will shortly be available at the movies. &nbsp; Steven Spielberg's latest film production, War Horse, is opening at cinemas on January 13th. It has already been acclaimed for its powerful and thought provoking message. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/war-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"War Horse\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<br>\r\nDolphinbooksellers.co.uk is part of <a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smithmartinpartnership.com\" target=\"_blank\">SmithMartin\r\nLLP<\/a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nA retail resource for the best children's books, entry point into our\r\nchildren's and community library procurement and supply service. Offering a miscellany of news and featured authors for all our readers,\r\nwhatever their age.<\/small><br><br><br>\r\n<\/body>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,7,1],"tags":[64,182,70,183,184],"class_list":{"0":"post-460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-events","7":"category-featured-authors","8":"category-featured-childrens-book","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-dolphin-booksellers","11":"tag-film-of-war-horse","12":"tag-michael-morpurgo","13":"tag-new-london-theatre","14":"tag-steven-speilberg","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry","17":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqnT3-7q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dolphinbooksellers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}