{"id":963,"date":"2014-02-21T21:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=963"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:48:05","slug":"there-are-few-whod-deny-at-what-i-do-i-am-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-963 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?attachment_id=964'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n1d6nk4Tra1rkuepmo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There are few who\u2019d deny, at what I do I am the best<br \/>\nFor my talents are renowned far and wide<br \/>\nWhen it comes to surprises in the moonlit night<br \/>\nI excel without ever even trying<br \/>\nWith the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms<br \/>\nI have seen grown men give out a shriek<br \/>\nWith the wave of my hand, and a well-placed moan<br \/>\nI have swept the very bravest off their feet<\/p>\n<p>Yet year after year, it\u2019s the same routine<br \/>\nAnd I grow so weary of the sound of screams<br \/>\nAnd I, Jack, the Pumpkin King<br \/>\nHave grown so tired of the same old thing<\/p>\n<p>Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones<br \/>\nAn emptiness began to grow<br \/>\nThere\u2019s something out there, far from my home<br \/>\nA longing that I\u2019ve never known<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a master of fright, and a demon of light<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ll scare you right out of your pants<br \/>\nTo a guy in Kentucky, I\u2019m Mister Unlucky<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m known throughout England and France<\/p>\n<p>And since I am dead, I can take off my head<br \/>\nTo recite Shakespearean quotations<br \/>\nNo animal nor man can scream like I can<br \/>\nWith the fury of my recitations<\/p>\n<p>But who here would ever understand<br \/>\nThat the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin<br \/>\nWould tire of his crown, if they only understood<br \/>\nHe\u2019d give it all up if he only could<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there\u2019s an empty place in my bones<br \/>\nThat calls out for something unknown<br \/>\nThe fame and praise come year after year<br \/>\nDoes nothing for these empty tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few who\u2019d deny, at what I do I am the best For my talents are renowned far and wide When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night I excel without ever even trying With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms I have seen grown men give out a shriek With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[265,266,264],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jackskellington","tag-thenightmarebeforechristmas","tag-thepumpkinking","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}