{"id":12595,"date":"2014-10-31T08:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2014-10-31T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:19:14","slug":"boo-boo-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/boo-boo-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo, boo, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Halloween today, right? Time to get the bag of chocolate out of the freezer.<\/p>\n

There’s a fine line between spooky and silly, as Fr\u00ebd illustrates in this footnote to American history.<\/p>\n

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There’s a lot of anime suitable for Halloween, from the many iterations of Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro<\/b><\/i> (including in particular Hakaba Kitaro<\/b><\/i>) to Soul Eater<\/b><\/i> and Hozuki no Reitetsu<\/a><\/b><\/i>. If I had to pick just one, though, it would be Kenji Nakamura’s Mononoke<\/b><\/i>. Here’s one of the two-episode stories:<\/p>\n

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The entire show is on YouTube, but it’s available for such a reasonable price<\/a> that there’s no excuse not to buy your own copy of this probable classic. ((I don’t declare anything a “classic” until it’s at least ten years old, and Mononoke<\/b><\/i> is from anime’s year of wonder, 2007.))<\/p>\n

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Boris Karloff drinks tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for a proper Halloween post, Isegoria has a bunch of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Halloween today, right? Time to get the bag of chocolate out of the freezer. There’s a fine line between spooky and silly, as Fr\u00ebd illustrates in this footnote to American history. ***** There’s a lot of anime suitable for Halloween, from the many iterations of Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro (including in particular Hakaba … Continue reading “Boo, boo, etc.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-humor-and-horror","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3h9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12595\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}