{"id":27942,"date":"2017-12-19T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=27942"},"modified":"2017-12-18T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:16:07","slug":"have-yourself-a-spooky-little-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/have-yourself-a-spooky-little-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Yourself A Spooky Little Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a traditionalist about Christmas, if something doesn&#8217;t work for you or your family then it should be ignored. Jettison what doesn&#8217;t work, keep what does.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One thing I keep to is Christmas ghost stories. Scaring yourself silly is an old midwinter tradition but the Victorians gave it some welly. Dickens gave us a Christmas Carol, Wilkie Collins made a career of unsettling people, Henry James got in on the act. Festive chillers were all the rage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The King of them all was Montague Rhodes James. M R James wrote ghost stories for his Christmas Eve drinks with friends and they are still frightening now. On Christmas Eve BBC4 is celebrating his work with a documentary about his life by Mark Gatiss at 9 pm which is followed by adaptations of his work and Dickens&#8217; The Signalman. I will be watching with the dog by my side and telling myself they are just stories as I head to bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"background-color: black; color: white; text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 6px; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Ubuntu, Roboto, Noto, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2; display: inline-block; border-radius: 3px;\" title=\"Download free do whatever you want high-resolution photos from Grant Lemons\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@grantlemons?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=photographer-credit&amp;utm_content=creditBadge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; padding: 2px 3px;\">Grant Lemons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas &#8211; a time to celebrate life by scaring yourself to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[168,215,239],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/grant-lemons-68726.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27945,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27942\/revisions\/27945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}