{"id":1127,"date":"2009-04-11T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/back-from-the-grave-charles-dickens.html"},"modified":"2009-04-11T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T17:23:00","slug":"back-from-the-grave-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/back-from-the-grave-charles-dickens.html","title":{"rendered":"Back From the Grave: Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeDiKluGjEI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/dJHAopZZjjk\/s1600-h\/dickens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeDiKluGjEI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/dJHAopZZjjk\/s400\/dickens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a>HE was the star of the 19th century, and has become fiercely relevant in ours: take a bow charles dickens!!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>thanks to the plunging economy, the awesome show &#8220;the wire,&#8221; and a bunch of bbc adaptations, dickens is back in a big way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-dickens11-2009apr11,0,1602838.story\">HERE<\/a> is my piece from today&#8217;s LAT in which i speak to a producer at mastepiece (theatre), a ucla literary scholar and former wire scribe (and onetime baltsun colleague) rafael alvarez.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>given where newspapers are these days, i&#8217;m pleasantly shocked that i&#8217;m still asked to do this kind of meaty deep-think story for the daily press.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>anyone who knew me in highschool would be shocked to see me writing such a piece in any form: my freshman english class read &#8220;great expectations&#8221; and i HATED it. i think i simply wasnt ready for it. wasnt until a college assignment of the atypical &#8220;hard times&#8221; that i realized what a fool i&#8217;d been.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>was a real pleasure to go back to some of the work, especially &#8220;david copperfield&#8221; and &#8220;oliver twist.&#8221; much more awaits.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: samuel lawrence and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superstock.com\/\">Superstock<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HE was the star of the 19th century, and has become fiercely relevant in ours: take a bow charles dickens!! thanks to the plunging economy, the awesome show &#8220;the wire,&#8221; and a bunch of bbc adaptations, dickens is back in a big way. HERE is my piece from today&#8217;s LAT in which i speak to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217,35,88,522,496],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-the-wire","7":"category-books","8":"category-brit-culture","9":"category-dickens","10":"category-victoriana","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}