{"id":1492,"date":"2026-12-18T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-12-18T05:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:41:17","slug":"premier-of-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"The Nutcracker Premiered in Russia in 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11457\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11457\" class=\"wp-image-11457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Nutcracker-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Western Nutcracker\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Western Nutcracker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>The Nutcracker,<\/em> created by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy, was performed for the first time in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892.<\/strong> The ballet was based on Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann\u2019s story, \u201cThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King.\u201d The ballet is performed countless times, especially in the United States, at holiday time.\u00a0Children can read the wonderfully illustrated <em>The\u00a0Nutcracker<\/em>, by Susan Jeffers, to understand the ballet\u2019s story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nutcracker, created by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy, was performed for the first time in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892. The ballet was based on Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann\u2019s story, \u201cThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King.\u201d The ballet is performed countless times, especially in the United States, at holiday time.\u00a0Children can read the wonderfully illustrated The\u00a0Nutcracker, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1492' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79,4568,4566,254,4567,81,4569],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-december-18","tag-ernst-theodor-wilhelm-hoffmann","tag-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovksy","tag-russia","tag-st-petersburg","tag-the-nutcracker","tag-the-nutcracker-and-the-mouse-king","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28784,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/28784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}