{"id":2301,"date":"2014-08-19T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-if-kate-winslet-sang-a-christmas-carol\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T21:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:21:41","slug":"what-if-kate-winslet-sang-a-christmas-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-if-kate-winslet-sang-a-christmas-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"What If Kate Winslet Sang A Christmas Carol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Winslet, starlet of Titanic fame and other films, evidently has a little <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> in her. <\/p>\n<p>You have to go back a ways \u2014 to 2001. She was the voice of Belle in a re-telling of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_Carol:_The_Movie\" target=\"_blank\">A Christmas Carol<\/a><\/em> with a bit of a twist. <\/p>\n<p>What if Scrooge wasn\u2019t such an old man and reformed himself in time to reunite with Belle? Ah, that would be different indeed. <\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly the story told in this forgotten live-action\/animated UK production from 2001. Here is the trailer:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The trailer makes the production forgettable enough and, alas, true <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> for Scrooge gets trumped every time when we consider his redemption thanks to the visits from three <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> ghosts. <\/p>\n<p>But Kate Winslet singing? <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s worthy of another look:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Winslet, starlet of Titanic fame and other films, evidently has a little Christmas in her. You have to go back a ways \u2014 to 2001. She was the voice of Belle in a re-telling of A Christmas Carol with a bit of a twist. What if Scrooge wasn\u2019t such an old man and reformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}