{"id":6053,"date":"2015-01-01T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2020-10-16T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:13:15","slug":"the-muppet-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/the-muppet-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muppet Christmas Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Mother always taught me: &#8216;Never eat singing food.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Muppet Christmas Carol<\/strong>, released in 1992<\/p>\n<p>Ebeneezer Scrooge gets visited by ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future and he vows to change his miserly ways. I&#8217;ve seen several versions of this story and if this were another straight adaptation I wouldn&#8217;t be that interested. But it&#8217;s the Muppets, so it contains the usual Muppet-style humour. There are a couple of catchy songs. Kermit and Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf, Dr. Honeydew and Beaker, Gonzo, and Rizzo the Rat all appear. Michael Caine stars as Scrooge.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Brian Henson (<strong>Muppet Treasure Island<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Mother always taught me: &#8216;Never eat singing food.&#8217;&#8221; The Muppet Christmas Carol, released in 1992 Ebeneezer Scrooge gets visited by ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future and he vows to change his miserly ways. I&#8217;ve seen several versions of this story and if this were another straight adaptation I wouldn&#8217;t be that interested. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16645,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/16645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}