{"id":2127,"date":"2017-11-21T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2017-11-25T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T00:48:49","slug":"as-the-man-who-invented-christmas-opens-paraclete-press-prepares-digital-and-social-media-tie-ins-for-a-christmas-carol-with-original-engravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/as-the-man-who-invented-christmas-opens-paraclete-press-prepares-digital-and-social-media-tie-ins-for-a-christmas-carol-with-original-engravings\/","title":{"rendered":"As &#8220;The Man Who Invented Christmas&#8221; opens, Paraclete Press prepares digital and social media tie-ins for &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; with original engravings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paraclete Press<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Orleans, Massachusetts<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><span data-term=\"goog_870150685\">November 21, 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>For Immediate Release<\/u><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2130 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Mr.-Fezziwigs-Ball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"223\" \/>As the latest Hollywood hit, \u201cThe Man Who Invented Christmas,\u201d opens this weekend, Paraclete Press is preparing digital and social media tie-ins for a new illustrated edition of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/8395\/a-christmas-carol.aspx\">\u00a0<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that includes engravings from the original 1843 book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDickens is one of the most enduring classic authors, and this is Dickens\u2019s most memorable work. We wanted to create a memorable edition of what is already a Christmas treasure,\u201d says Jon M. Sweeney, Paraclete\u2019s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/8395\/a-christmas-carol.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2128\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Christmas-Carol.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>Who can resist the story of the bad-tempered Ebenezer Scrooge\u2019s transformation into a kinder and more loving version of himself?\u00a0Then there are the visiting ghosts of past, present, and future, the deeply good Bob Cratchit, and his iconic son Tiny Tim. With period illustrations in a beautiful book package, this new edition of\u00a0<em>A Christmas Carol<\/em>\u00a0will help create or revive family traditions with Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2129 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marleys-Ghost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"247\" \/>\u201cWe even imagine\u2014and hope\u2014that families will once again begin to read books like this aloud,\u201d concludes Sweeney.<\/p>\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>Paraclete Press Orleans, Massachusetts November 21, 2017 For Immediate Release As the latest Hollywood hit, \u201cThe Man Who Invented Christmas,\u201d opens this weekend, Paraclete Press is preparing digital and social media tie-ins for a new illustrated edition of\u00a0A Christmas Carol\u00a0that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/as-the-man-who-invented-christmas-opens-paraclete-press-prepares-digital-and-social-media-tie-ins-for-a-christmas-carol-with-original-engravings\/\">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":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}