{"id":889,"date":"2020-12-26T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:13:20","slug":"the-battle-of-life-a-christmas-novel-by-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/the-battle-of-life-a-christmas-novel-by-charles-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Life &#8211; a Christmas novel by Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boys drink and review Crowhill&#8217;s homebrewed Baltic Porter, then continue their &#8220;shortcut to the classics&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>Dickens didn&#8217;t only write <i>A Christmas Carol<\/i> for Christmas time. He has a few other novels that are called Christmas novels, although it&#8217;s not entirely clear why.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Pigweed, Crowhill, with special guest Longinus, review and evaluate <i>The Battle of Life.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a love story, of sorts, with colorful characters and a few odd twists and turns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17330507\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys drink and review Crowhill&#8217;s homebrewed Baltic Porter, then continue their &#8220;shortcut to the classics&#8221; series. Dickens didn&#8217;t only write A Christmas Carol for Christmas time. He has a few other novels that are called Christmas novels, although it&#8217;s not entirely clear why. In this episode, Pigweed, Crowhill, with special guest Longinus, review and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/the-battle-of-life-a-christmas-novel-by-charles-dickens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Battle of Life &#8211; a Christmas novel by Charles Dickens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}