{"id":14389,"date":"2025-12-16T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:31:39","slug":"having-a-calm-and-spooky-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/having-a-calm-and-spooky-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a calm (and spooky) Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Having a peaceful Christmas &#8211; with shopping, travel arrangements, presents, school events, lunches and dinners, office parties, decorations, Christmas cards, cooking on a massive scale and all the rest of it &#8211; can seem like an unlikely prospect! For that reason I like to find a little time to read, and what better genre to explore than that of the Christmas ghost story. The most famous example of this genre in English is Charles Dickens&#8217; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xRonangfz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Christmas Carol<\/a><\/strong>, but why not try something a little shorter with the chilling <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/dec\/24\/christmas-ghost-stories-dark-jeanette-winterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Christmas<\/a> <\/strong>by Jeanette Winterson. And if you have a few minutes of quiet and fancy something a bit less scary why not <strong>click on the picture below for our brand new Christmas quiz<\/strong>. Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year!<\/h4>\n<h4>The King&#8217;s Training team<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/quizzes\/christmas-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14390\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/happy-christmas.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a peaceful Christmas &#8211; with shopping, travel arrangements, presents, school events, lunches and dinners, office parties, decorations, Christmas cards, cooking on a massive scale&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":14390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publica",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14395,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions\/14395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualcampus.kingstraining.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}