{"id":3586,"date":"2013-12-24T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/A-Dickens-of-a-Christmas\/ba-p\/12023"},"modified":"2013-12-24T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T16:18:22","slug":"a-dickens-of-a-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/a-dickens-of-a-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dickens of a Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickens did not quite &#8220;invent&#8221; Christmas, as it is sometimes claimed, but, ever since&nbsp;<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>&nbsp;was published in 1843, Scrooge&#8217;s Yuletide nightmares and joyful Christmas morning have become as much a part of the popular idea of the season as Christmas trees and endless, maddening renditions of &#8220;Jingle Bells.&#8221; A little searching yields about 1,700 different editions of&nbsp;<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>&nbsp;for sale, and theatrical performances are an annual tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickens did not quite &#8220;invent&#8221; Christmas, as it is sometimes claimed, but, ever since&nbsp;A Christmas Carol&nbsp;was published in 1843, Scrooge&#8217;s Yuletide nightmares and joyful Christmas morning have become as much a part of the popular idea of the se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}