{"id":6992,"date":"2010-12-22T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:29:31","slug":"qotd-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/qotd-a-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s Christmas time, and that means it&#8217;s time to enjoy <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, Charles Dickens&#8217; melancholy tale of a productive businessman who gets worked over by three meddling supernatural social workers one Christmas Eve, transforming him into a simpering socialist.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as sad as <em>Star Wars<\/em>, really.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Kern, <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/000828.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A TCS Christmas Carol&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas time, and that means it&#8217;s time to enjoy A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens&#8217; melancholy tale of a productive businessman who gets worked over by three meddling supernatural social workers one Christmas Eve, transforming him into a simpering socialist. It&#8217;s almost as sad as Star Wars, really. Douglas Kern, &#8220;A TCS Christmas Carol&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28,41],"tags":[345],"class_list":["post-6992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1OM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65608,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/65608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}