{"id":22960,"date":"2015-08-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=22960"},"modified":"2015-08-10T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T05:30:17","slug":"who-is-the-best-jacob-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/who-is-the-best-jacob-marley\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the best Jacob Marley?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you read the book or simply watch <em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Carol<\/em> by Charles Dickens every <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> there is no getting around the point that likely the juiciest role in the whole story is that of Jacob Marley. <\/p>\n<p>Think about it &#8212; he&#8217;s a mournful, lost, tortured soul suffering through the depths of hell that has come back to torment his former partner and friend. How can any actor resist such a role?<\/p>\n<p>At day #136 in the Countdown to <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> we have to ask &#8212; who is the best Jacob Marley? <\/p>\n<p>We suggest this 1984 version of Jacob Marley played by Frank Finlay, from the production starring George C. Scott as Scrooge:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qh_fUMgFomk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one truly psychotic Jacob Marley. We think it is a good representation of the ghost story Charles Dickens hoped <em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Carol<\/em> would become. You gotta <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> a guy that can make General Patton crap his pants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you read the book or simply watch A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens every Christmas there is no getting around the point that likely the juiciest role in the whole story is that of Jacob Marley. Think about it &#8212; he&#8217;s a mournful, lost, tortured soul suffering through the depths of hell that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":1434,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,28,25,15],"tags":[48,47,248],"class_list":["post-22960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-movies","category-christmas-video","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-charles-dickens","tag-jacob-marley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}