{"id":358309,"date":"2025-12-20T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358309\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:14:12","slug":"hear-metallicas-james-hetfield-read-the-night-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358309\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Metallica\u2019s James Hetfield read \u201dThe Night Before Christmas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metallica frontman James Hetfield is celebrating the holidays with a spoken-word performance of Clement-Clarke Moore&#8217;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<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metallica frontman James Hetfield is celebrating the holidays with a spoken-word performance of Clement-Clarke Moore&#8217;s A Visit from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,2526,92831,2525,2527,7874,341,44],"class_list":["post-358309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-james-hetfield","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-metallica","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}