{"id":166,"date":"2006-07-21T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2017-11-28T00:38:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:38:19","slug":"ghosts-of-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/21\/ghosts-of-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fear of upsetting spirits keeps island society on best behaviour<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/images\/2006\/mug.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> By Mark Magnier<br \/>\nThe Los Angeles Times<br \/>\n<\/strong>Taipei, Taiwan (Jul 19, 2006)Chin Wei considers a blockbuster American ghost movie and scoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw Ghostbusters, but that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s done,&#8221; says the author of several ghost books and the host of radio and television paranormal programs. &#8220;You can&#8217;t get rid of ghosts that easily, especially with those funny, weird machines. That&#8217;s just comedy.&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonspectator.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1153260644044&amp;call_pageid=1020420665036&amp;col=1112101662670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear of upsetting spirits keeps island society on best behaviour By Mark Magnier The Los Angeles Times Taipei, Taiwan (Jul 19, 2006)Chin Wei considers a blockbuster American ghost movie and scoffs. &#8220;I saw Ghostbusters, but that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s done,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/21\/ghosts-of-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}