{"id":1441,"date":"2025-12-19T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:35:33","slug":"on-this-day-december-19-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/on-this-day-december-19-1843\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day &#8211; December 19, 1843"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 19th, 1843, Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol was first published. The story has grown to become one of the most familiar tales ever written, however it was originally created as a critique of extreme poverty, wealth inequality, and child labor in Victorian England. Dickens utilized his ghost story to redefine Victorian Christmas, making it a holiday of family, rather than one of capitalistic ideals. To this day, A Christmas Carol remains one of the most widely read and adapted stories and is known as Dickens\u2019 most famed work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 19th, 1843, Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol was first published. The story has grown to become one of the most familiar tales ever written, however it was originally created as a critique of extreme poverty, wealth inequality, and child labor in Victorian England. Dickens utilized his ghost story to redefine Victorian Christmas, making it a holiday of family, rather than one of capitalistic ideals. To this day, A Christmas Carol remains one of the most widely read and adapted stories and is known as Dickens\u2019 most famed work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december","category-december-19","category-on-this-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicsfordinner.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}