{"id":187018,"date":"2025-11-01T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187018"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:59:50","slug":"keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187018","title":{"rendered":"Keith McNally&#8217;s 6 favorite books that have ambitious characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London-born restaurateur recommends works by Leo Tolstoy, John le Carr\u00e9, and more&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/culture-life\/books\/keith-mcnally-favorite-books-ambitious-characters\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The London-born restaurateur recommends works by Leo Tolstoy, John le Carr\u00e9, and more&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187018-keith-mcnallys-6-favorite-books-that-have-ambitious-characters-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}