{"id":32693,"date":"2023-10-30T19:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=32693"},"modified":"2023-10-30T19:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:22:32","slug":"victoria-hislop-tells-graham-norton-about-burning-inspiration-behind-the-figurine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/victoria-hislop-tells-graham-norton-about-burning-inspiration-behind-the-figurine\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Hislop tells Graham Norton about \u2018burning inspiration\u2019 behind The Figurine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-4uxl50\"><em>The Figurine<\/em> is set during the period of the Junta army dictatorship in Greece in the 1960s and 1970s, and Victoria\u2019s story was inspired by the Cycladic figurine and the influence they had on 20th century art. She wanted to explore the crime that beauty and antiquity can drive people to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-4uxl50\">Speaking on The Graham Norton Radio Show with <a class=\"css-o22jcy\" title=\"click Waitrose to visit http:\/\/waitrose.com\" href=\"http:\/\/waitrose.com\" aria-label=\"click Waitrose to visit http:\/\/waitrose.com\"><span class=\"css-17x5lw\"><span class=\"css-1mnatk2\">Waitrose<\/span><\/span><\/a>, The Island writer revealed that the statutes, most of whom are women and found by grave sites, are actually illegal to buy and sell, and the genesis of her story came from the argument over antiquities in museums thousands of miles away from their home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Victoria Hislop: It Was A Dark Period Of Greek History \u2764\ufe0f\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfXfEMrGxR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Figurine is set during the period of the Junta army dictatorship in Greece in the 1960s and 1970s, and Victoria\u2019s story was inspired by the Cycladic figurine and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32698,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32693\/revisions\/32698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}