{"id":9263,"date":"2009-12-25T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2009-12-24T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:24:49","slug":"a-christmas-carol-in-two-flavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/a-christmas-carol-in-two-flavors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Carol in Two Flavors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is very true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Power of Jonathan Winters<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was a long road home one Christmas Eve when the choice came. Stop for a bite to eat or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4225458\" class=\"external external_icon\">listen to Jonathan Winter&#8217;s read A Christmas Carol<\/a> over the radio station we had just found. There was no choice really. While our belly grumbled with hunger on the ride home, our heart was full of smiles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Master comedian<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4225458\" class=\"external external_icon\"> Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of this holiday classic<\/a>, using a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations. He re-creates Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley&#8217;s spirit and the three Christmas ghosts: Past, Present and Future. Mimi Kennedy also performs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>A Christmas Carol (1971, Richard Williams)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><embed id=VideoPlayback src=http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8817517652455175582&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application\/x-shockwave-flash> <\/embed> <\/div>\n<p>For those of you who want the visual experience there&#8217;s always Google Video to satisfy your need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is very true. The Power of Jonathan Winters It was a long road home one Christmas Eve when the choice came. Stop for a bite to eat or listen to Jonathan Winter&#8217;s read A Christmas Carol over the radio station we had just found. There was no choice really. While our belly grumbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,48,7],"tags":[1784,1761,1787,1783,1730,4927,1775],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-holiday","category-video","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-christmas-2009","tag-feeling-a-bit-dickensian","tag-jonathan-winters","tag-short-fictions-just-for-you","tag-video","tag-x-days-of-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}