{"id":423,"date":"2013-05-30T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T22:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worddean.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-06-02T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T18:57:15","slug":"top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worddean.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Greatest Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the top ten of world\u2019s greatest writers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\">Leo Tolstoy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakespeare\">Shakespeare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Joyce\">James Joyce<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Nabokov\">Vladimir Nabokov<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fyodor_Dostoevsky\">Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\">William Faulkner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anton_Chekhov\">Anton Chekhov<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustave_Flaubert\">Gustave Flaubert<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Austen\">Jane Austen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the top ten of world\u2019s greatest writers: Leo Tolstoy, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writer-tips","wpcat-8-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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