{"id":12268,"date":"2012-12-19T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T06:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2012-12-24T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T20:27:22","slug":"12268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12268","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bob-Cratchitts-Wife-with-Toys-illustration-from-Dickens-A-Christmas-Carol-ink-on-paper-26.7-x-31.8-cm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12280\" title=\"Bob Cratchitt's Wife with Toys (illustration from Dickens' A Christmas Carol) ink on paper 26.7 x 31.8 cm\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Bob-Cratchitts-Wife-with-Toys-illustration-from-Dickens-A-Christmas-Carol-ink-on-paper-26.7-x-31.8-cm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round\u2014apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that\u2014as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. &#8211; &#8220;Fred&#8221; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round\u2014apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that\u2014as a good time; a kind, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=12268\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","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=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}