{"id":12263,"date":"2012-12-19T22:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T06:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:47:24","slug":"great-snacks-in-literature-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12263","title":{"rendered":"Great Snacks in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration from a 1915 edition of Charles Dickens\u2019\u00a0<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>, by Arthur Rackham, a famous late Victorian\/Edwardian book illustrator. Ilustration\u00a0is from the scene that Scrooge views in the Cratchit household whilst being escorted by the ghost of Christmas Present.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered\u2014flushed, but smiling proudly\u2014with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.\u201d [Dickens,\u00a0<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MrsCratchitwiththePudding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MrsCratchitwiththePudding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12264\" title=\"MrsCratchitwiththePudding\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MrsCratchitwiththePudding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration from a 1915 edition of Charles Dickens\u2019\u00a0A Christmas Carol, by Arthur Rackham, a famous late Victorian\/Edwardian book illustrator. Ilustration\u00a0is from the scene that Scrooge views in the Cratchit household whilst being escorted by the ghost of Christmas Present. \u201cIn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[876],"tags":[1048,1049,1047,1050,1051],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-snacks-in-literature","tag-arthur-rackham","tag-charles-dickens","tag-christmas-carol","tag-christmas-pudding","tag-holiday-pudding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12606,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}