{"id":1553,"date":"2026-12-23T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-12-23T05:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:09:11","slug":"a-visit-from-saint-nicholas-was-published-in-1823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Visit from Saint Nicholas\u201d Was Published in 1823"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11492 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Laura-Stocking-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u201cA Visit from Saint Nicholas\u201d was published in 1823<\/strong>. Also known as \u201c\u2018Twas the Night before Christmas,\u201d the poem was at first published anonymously. However, most experts feel Clement Clarke Moore wrote it. Four handwritten copies of the poem exist. Today this poem is one of the most well known verses in the United States. It has been quoted or parodied numerous times. Children can read the book and examine the illustrations at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Children can read more about the poem at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/nation\/jb_nation_moore_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America&#8217;s Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Visit from Saint Nicholas\u201d was published in 1823. Also known as \u201c\u2018Twas the Night before Christmas,\u201d the poem was at first published anonymously. However, most experts feel Clement Clarke Moore wrote it. Four handwritten copies of the poem exist. Today this poem is one of the most well known verses in the United States. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1553' 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":[4629,4374,715,4630,4628],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-a-visit-from-saint-nicholas","tag-4374","tag-clement-clarke-moore","tag-december-23","tag-twas-the-night-before-christmas","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\/1553","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=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28879,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/28879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}