{"id":540,"date":"2009-10-26T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-10-26T09:34:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:34:36","slug":"that-ghostly-appeal-tor-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/that-ghostly-appeal-tor-post\/","title":{"rendered":"That Ghostly Appeal (Tor post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delve into the folk tales of any culture in the world, and before long you\u2019ll come across ghost stories. The woman who lingers on the bridge where she jumped to her death. The lord of the manor who haunts his former home. Whatever other supernatural creatures catch readers\u2019 attention and become the next hot thing in fiction, ghosts have always been, and are always, here. Whether they\u2019re taking revenge on innocent victims or trying to atone for past wrongs, audiences never seem to tire of them.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who\u2019s written about ghosts more than once, I\u2019ve found myself wondering why. The best answer I can come up with is, it\u2019s because ghosts can mean so many things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=+1>Read the full post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=58133\">here at Tor.com<\/a>!<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delve into the folk tales of any culture in the world, and before long you\u2019ll come across ghost stories. The woman who lingers on the bridge where she jumped to her death. The lord of the manor who haunts his &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/that-ghostly-appeal-tor-post\/\">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":[],"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}