{"id":136186,"date":"2022-09-20T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/richard-osman-the-closer-you-get-to-death-the-less-you-fear-it"},"modified":"2022-09-20T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:30:33","slug":"richard-osman-the-closer-you-get-to-death-the-less-you-fear-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/richard-osman-the-closer-you-get-to-death-the-less-you-fear-it","title":{"rendered":"Richard Osman: The closer you get to death, the less you fear it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Osman wrote the first two instalments of The Thursday Murder Club series without realising what a gigantic hit his books were going to be &#8211; but he didn&#8217;t have that luxury third time around. &#8220;The second one [The Man Who Died Twice] was pretty much finished before the first one came out,&#8221; remembers the game show host-turned-novelist. &#8220;So I wrote this [The Bullet That Missed] in the full hurricane of sales and feedback and public opinion, and all that kind of stuff. Which is absolutely lovely, because I walk down the street and people chat to me about the book. &#8220;But in another way, you have to ignore it, because you have to write it like you wrote the first two. When people tell me what they like about it or the characters they like, I think I&#8217;ll put more of them in &#8211; and suddenly the book would be 800 pages long. I just have to shut the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Osman wrote the first two instalments of The Thursday Murder Club series without realising what a gigantic hit his books were going to be &#8211; but he didn&#8217;t have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[90,18,19],"class_list":["post-136186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}