{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Fir-Tree - by Hans Christian Andersen","description":"&quot;The Fir-Tree&quot; (Danish: Grantr\u00e6et) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805\u20131875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21&amp;nbsp;December 1844 with &quot;The Snow Queen&quot;, in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection, in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager&amp;nbsp;[de]) indicates that &quot;The Fir-Tree&quot; was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism.[1] ","author_name":"Citation Needed","author_url":"http:\/\/citationpod.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39559390\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/196974360"}