{"id":207,"date":"2012-09-05T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-09-05T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:30:43","slug":"winter-weekend-2013-great-expectations-by-charles-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Winter Weekend 2013:  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something to look forward to this winter&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/England-view-from-Sarahs-apartment-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-212\" title=\"England - view from Sarah's apartment 2\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/England-view-from-Sarahs-apartment-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens\u2019s birth, the Maine Humanities Council is delighted to announce our first Dickens novel for Winter Weekend. Great Expectations, one of Dickens\u2019s mature novels, is replete with his trademark colorful characters and biting criticism of society. This bildungsroman is a powerful and dramatic story from Dickens at his prime.<\/p>\n<p>Winter Weekend is a humanities experience that, though lectures and discussions, unites historians, writers, artists, public intellectuals, and others to help us understand each year\u2019s book in its rich historical and cultural context.<\/p>\n<p>Winter Weekend 2013 will take place March 8 and 9 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. The $225 registration fee includes a copy of the book, background readings, a reception, dinner, lunch, and coffee. CEUs are available for teachers. Limited scholarships are available for college and high school students. The program starts at 5 p.m. on Friday and continues until mid-afternoon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>To register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/mainehumanities.org\/programs\/2013.html\">http:\/\/mainehumanities.org\/programs\/2013.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something to look forward to this winter&#8230; On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens\u2019s birth, the Maine Humanities Council is delighted to announce our first Dickens novel for Winter Weekend. Great Expectations, one of Dickens\u2019s mature novels, is replete with his trademark colorful characters and biting criticism of society. This bildungsroman is a powerful and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Weekend 2013:  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,82,83,85,86],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bowdoin-college","tag-charles-dickens","tag-great-expectations","tag-maine-humanities-council","tag-winter-weekend"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}