{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Becoming Barnum: The Journey to Fame and Fortune","title":"A New Chapter for a New Year ","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/08c016ca\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1592,"description":"In this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, A “new chapter” is about to begin in P. T. Barnum’s business life as we learn from a group of letters he composed—appropriately—on New Year’s Day in 1846.  Barnum had just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland, after two days in Newcastle upon Tyne, where Gen. Tom Thumb performed.  Even in their brief time there, Barnum had managed to write several letters to correspondents in America, but no sooner were these crossing the ocean than a new batch requiring answers was delivered to him in Scotland. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Bvl2-ffGsowD303Utbky1xVs4u0ARVbQNmc78qqAxS4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyMTQxLzE2NTY0/MzYwODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}