{"id":1403683,"date":"2019-10-21T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403683"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:07:44","slug":"literary-ghosts-ranked-from-least-scary-to-scariest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/literary-ghosts-ranked-from-least-scary-to-scariest\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Ghosts Ranked from Least Scary to Scariest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/literaryghostsrankedheadlesshorseman_Slide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s almost Halloween\u2014a time when the world seems to revolve around pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and ghost stories. It&#8217;s also a time when even people like me (and by people like me I mean people who wouldn&#8217;t watch a horror movie if you paid them) are forced to deal with all things creepy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ve never considered myself a coward (okay, maybe a little\u2014what, am I supposed to just go into a dark room ALONE?), so today I&#8217;m ranking ghosts from literature on a scale from 1 to &#8220;WOULD LITERALLY KILL YOU, DO NOT APPROACH.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost Halloween\u2014a time when the world seems to revolve around pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and ghost stories. It&#8217;s also a time when even people like me (and by people like me I mean people who wouldn&#8217;t   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[24912,438,628,2335,524,32,24908,7915,25017,248,8741,24910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403683"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441379,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403683\/revisions\/1441379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}