{"id":825,"date":"2015-11-17T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?page_id=825"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:32:10","slug":"a-bleak-christmas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?page_id=825","title":{"rendered":"Dickens &#038; Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;<a title=\"A Bleak Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FinalDickensPapernewestedit1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Bleak Christmas<\/a>&#8220;<\/h2>\n<p>is an interesting research and opinion paper that I wrote that also deals with literacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rosemarybloom2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-915 \" title=\"Rosemary \" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rosemarybloom2016.jpg\" alt=\"rosemary bloom closup 2016 NEast GA\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rosemarybloom2016.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rosemarybloom2016-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used two Dickens novels, <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em> and <em>Bleak House<\/em>, as well as the\u00a0The Parliamentary Papers: <em>Children\u2019s Employment Commission Reports,\u00a0<\/em>to create a persuasive argument about Dickens as a social reformer novelist.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this the first semester I went back to college, and it showed when I reread it today. I can see that my writing has evolved significantly. I think it needs more editing, but here it is anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Bleak Christmas&#8220; is an interesting research and opinion paper that I wrote that also deals with literacy. I used two Dickens novels, A Christmas Carol and Bleak House, as well as the\u00a0The Parliamentary Papers: Children\u2019s Employment Commission Reports,\u00a0to create a persuasive argument about Dickens as a social reformer novelist. I wrote this the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?page_id=825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dickens &#038; Literacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":600,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-825","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825\/revisions\/1621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}