{"id":18716,"date":"2026-04-20T12:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:33:23","slug":"irje9-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/irje9-3\/","title":{"rendered":"IRJE#9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the book\u300a<em> Magpie Murders<\/em>\u300bby <em>Anthony Horowitz\u00a0<\/em>the novel talks about a event happens in 20th century of England, a small town in the countryside have occur a murder case which is the servant of a castle has died during working. The police in the town all think it was a natural death, but many residents believe it was her son who killed him because they had a big fight on the street before work and even made her son say, &#8216;I really hope you die.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This book changed my life. You may have read that before. I&#8217;m embarrassed to say that is plashed it on the cover of the first novel I ever commissioned&#8230;&#8221;(p.12)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote, from the perspective of editor Susan, points out the impact of literary works on people&#8217;s lives, laying the foundation for the subsequent real-life murder cases triggered by the manuscript and establishing the core structure of the novel&#8217;s &#8220;interweaving of reality and fiction&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the book\u300a Magpie Murders\u300bby Anthony Horowitz\u00a0the novel talks about a event happens in 20th century of England, a small town in the countryside have occur a murder case which is the servant of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18723,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}