{"id":135256,"date":"2017-11-01T21:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135256"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:58:27","slug":"happy-birthday-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/happy-birthday-sherlock-holmes.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great Detective’s first story, “A Study in Scarlet,” was first published 130 years ago today.<\/p>\n

Also, some interesting bits on Mormonism and Victorian England.<\/p>\n


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\nThe Creator of Sherlock Holmes Was, Like Many Victorians, Fascinated by Mormons<\/a><\/span>
\nThe first story featuring iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, ‘A Study in Scarlet,’ was published on this day in 1887\u2014and set in Mormon Utah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Great Detective’s first story, “A Study in Scarlet,” was first published 130 years ago today. Also, some interesting bits on Mormonism and Victorian England. The Creator of Sherlock Holmes Was, Like Many Victorians, Fascinated by Mormons The first story featuring iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, ‘A Study in Scarlet,’ was published on this day in … Continue reading “Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135260,"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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,378,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-intolerance-persecution","category-sherlock-holmes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sherlock-holmes-drawing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html","url_meta":{"origin":135256,"position":0},"title":"Sherlock Holmes, Detective Extraordinaire (and Public Domain)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Nov-14 8:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Supreme Court has decline an appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate, leaving standing a ruling that fifty of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, published before 1923, have entered the public domain. 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