{"id":7183,"date":"2015-12-14T23:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2015-12-14T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T04:13:34","slug":"scary-ghost-stories-of-christmases-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"Scary Ghost Stories of Christmases Long Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first key to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/19\/ghosts-on-the-nog\/\">Christmas ghost story<\/a>,&#8221; writes Colin Fleming, &#8220;is a convivial atmosphere. People in these stories are well fed, they\u2019re often hanging out in groups, you feel like you\u2019re hanging out with them, and you do not wish to leave any more than they do. It is cold outside but warm in here, and it\u2019s time to rediscover that sense of play that so many of us adults lose over the years, and which, when we are fortunate, we remember to rediscover at Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He recommends five old stories to fit the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The first key to a Christmas ghost story,&#8221; writes Colin Fleming, &#8220;is a convivial atmosphere. People in these stories are well fed, they\u2019re often hanging out in groups, you feel like you\u2019re hanging out with them, and you do not wish to leave any more than they do. It is cold outside but warm in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scary Ghost Stories of Christmases Long Ago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[504,1064],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-christmas","tag-ghosts"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}