{"id":555,"date":"2024-10-31T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=555"},"modified":"2024-10-31T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:32:47","slug":"the-nightmare-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2024\/10\/31\/the-nightmare-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The nightmare before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Skellington, the beloved Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown tired of his home&#8217;s annual scaring routines and longs for something new.<\/p>\n<p>So when he and his loyal dog, Zero, discover a series of doors in the Hinterlands leading to other holiday towns, he can&#8217;t help but explore &#8211; and quickly becomes enamoured with Christmas Town, a place filled with jolly laughs, merry elves, and plenty of presents. Jack shares all of his findings with the rest of Halloween Town, and together, they devise a plan to run Christmas themselves.<\/p>\n<p>But not all tricks can be turned into holiday treats, and Jack&#8217;s dream to organise the best Christmas ever may just turn into a nightmare. Alongside friends like the rag doll Sally, can Jack find his true purpose as a holiday king?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/717MOlJ1mpL._SY466_.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Skellington, the beloved Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown tired of his home&#8217;s annual scaring routines and longs for something new. So when he and his loyal dog, Zero, discover a series of doors in the Hinterlands leading to other holiday towns, he can&#8217;t help but explore &#8211; and quickly becomes enamoured with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2024\/10\/31\/the-nightmare-before-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The nightmare before Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}