{"id":1868,"date":"2014-01-01T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:08:48","slug":"review-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did read <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, and I do like to write at least a capsule here about everything I read.\u00a0 Honestly, <em>Carol<\/em> has become so much a part of the popular culture that there&#8217;s not much at all to say about it.\u00a0 In fact, the thing that struck me most is that the source material brings so little to the story that the movies, plays, comics, etc. have not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carol<\/em> really is a simple, well-told story about a miserly old misanthrope who is led back to the path of righteousness by spectral visitors.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been completely assimilated into the culture.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t get much new out of reading the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did read A Christmas Carol, and I do like to write at least a capsule here about everything I read.\u00a0 Honestly, Carol has become so much a part of the popular culture that there&#8217;s not much at all to say about it.\u00a0 In fact, the thing that struck me most is that the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}