{"id":1008,"date":"2012-02-07T07:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2012-02-07T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:16:02","slug":"dickens-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/dickens-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickens World – Dickens’ Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, the Google banner tells me it’s Dickens’ birthday today.\u00a0 Back in ’07 I was dreaming about visiting\u00a0 Dickens World<\/a>.\u00a0 All my previous writing may be stripped from the web, but I still have copies of it.\u00a0 Allow me to resurrect:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Maybe one of the most innovative ideas for a theme park is opening May 2007 just outside of London in Dicken’s childhood home of Chatham. Dickens World<\/a> is based wholly on the stories and characters of Charles Dickens. Costumed characters will walk among the park goers to populate the fantasy city. Rides, themed restaurants, and cinemas will entertain during the day with a burlesque show at night offering naughtier entertainment.”<\/p>\n

I have both been terribly bored and amused by Dickens; regardless of my literary experiences, a park built on classic literature is like a happy dream.<\/p>\n

Hey! speaking of Dickens World there’s also Dickens World<\/a>!\u00a0 Wiley Blackwell publishers are putting on a free online conference March 7th and 8th to celebrate Dickens.\u00a0 If Dickens scholarship is up your alley then go!\u00a0 Go and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the Google banner tells me it’s Dickens’ birthday today.\u00a0 Back in ’07 I was dreaming about visiting\u00a0 Dickens World.\u00a0 All my previous writing may be stripped from the web, but I still have copies of it.\u00a0 Allow me to resurrect: \u00a0“Maybe one of the most innovative ideas for a theme park is opening May… Continue reading Dickens World – Dickens’ Birthday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[73,95,79],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-librarians","tag-theme-parks","tag-traveling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6005,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/happy-birthday-brad-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1008,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Brad","author":"leems","date":"April 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Totally not Brad's birthday, but when it was his birthday Richard (of doomedmoviethon) said, \"you should draw a picture of Brad with Michael Myers.\"\u00a0 So I did. 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