{"id":3708,"date":"2012-03-23T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2012-03-23T03:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T03:31:50","slug":"dickens-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/dickens-world\/","title":{"rendered":"DICKENS WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>really awesome article about england&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/12\/magazine\/dickens-world.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">dickens world<\/a> by sam anderson in <em>the new york times sunday magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He also told me that he and his staff narrowed the pool with \u201cAmerican  Idol\u201d-style auditions. \u201cWe made the applicants demonstrate customer  service,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat they\u2019d do if somebody lost a child, or injured  themselves. Or if there was a complaint, unfortunately. But then I said  to them, \u2018The twist is, <em>you have to do it in a Victorian manner<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The visitor experience consisted mainly of listening to recorded  speeches, many of which were either dull or unintelligible.<\/p>\n<p>For a park that markets itself to children, Dickens World was  surprisingly grisly. I saw at least two severed heads, and when the  performers lip-synched their way through a dramatization of \u201cOliver  Twist\u201d in the courtyard, it ended as the novel ends: with Bill Sikes  murdering Nancy by beating her head in with a club, then being chased by  a mob until he accidentally hangs himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>really awesome article about england&#8217;s dickens world by sam anderson in the new york times sunday magazine. He also told me that he and his staff narrowed the pool with \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d-style auditions. \u201cWe made the applicants demonstrate customer service,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat they\u2019d do if somebody lost a child, or injured themselves. Or if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}