{"id":2090,"date":"2026-02-18T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:36:15","slug":"the-selfish-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/the-selfish-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Selfish Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Deacon has adapted Oscar Wilde&#8217;s text for The Selfish Giant and also illustrated it in his typical elegant style. It was published by Red Fox (Random House) in 2013 and we have a small handful of the original paintings for sale,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/alexis-deacon\/originals-for-sale-1\/4439-we-must-ask-the-hail-on-a-visit\/\"> including this one, &#8216;We Must Ask Hail on a Visit&#8217;.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail-521x532.jpg 521w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail-906x925.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail-785x802.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/We-Must-ask-Hail-435x444.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Deacon has adapted Oscar Wilde&#8217;s text for The Selfish Giant and also illustrated it in his typical elegant style. It was published by Red Fox (Random House) in 2013 and we have a small handful of the original paintings for sale, including this one, &#8216;We Must Ask Hail on a Visit&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,34,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}