{"id":242977,"date":"2025-12-20T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242977\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T16:08:11","slug":"hear-metallicas-james-hetfield-read-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242977\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield read \u201dThe Night Before Christmas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metallica<\/strong> frontman <strong>James Hetfield<\/strong> is celebrating the holidays with a spoken-word performance of <strong>Clement-Clarke Moore<\/strong>&#8216;s A Visit from St. Nicholas. His take on the poem, which is widely known as The Night Before Christmas can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Metallica commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Grab your cocoa and settle in by the fire before your long winter&#8217;s nap for a reading of &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas by Papa Het.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica frontman James Hetfield is celebrating the holidays with a spoken-word performance of Clement-Clarke Moore&#8216;s A Visit from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,12061,19,17,62900,73397,7163,16577,337,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-242977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hardcore","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-james-hetfield","14":"tag-lambgoat","15":"tag-metal","16":"tag-metallica","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115752763959366003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}