{"id":14626,"date":"2015-10-31T18:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T23:55:22","slug":"demon-cats-and-other-holiday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/demon-cats-and-other-holiday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon cats and other holiday fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Such a sweet smile\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1-640x360.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1-624x351.jpg 624w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mononoke-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s Halloween, and you&#8217;d like to watch some spooky anime, preferably available online legally for free? There are some suggestions <a href=\"https:\/\/litakinoanimereviews.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/28\/spooky-october-litas-top-ten-anime-halloween-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but there are other series I prefer. For monsters, there&#8217;s the currently-airing <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/ushio-and-tora\" target=\"_blank\">Ushio and Tora<\/a><\/b><\/i>. For Shinto 101 and yokai, there&#8217;s <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/natsume-yujin-cho\" target=\"_blank\">Natsume Yuujin-cho<\/a><\/b><\/i>. But my first choice is <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/mononoke\" target=\"_blank\">Mononoke<\/a><\/b><\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=5305\" target=\"_blank\">Kenji Nakamura<\/a>&#8216;s first series and still his best. The medicine seller&#8217;s investigations are as much moral detective stories as horror shows, informed by a stringent sense of justice. If you merely want to be scared out of your wits, there are many other shows to choose from, but if you want a work of art worth rewatching and thinking about, try <strong><em>Mononoke<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"The medicine seller\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller-640x360.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller-624x351.jpg 624w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Medicine-Seller.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s Halloween, and you&#8217;d like to watch some spooky anime, preferably available online legally for free? There are some suggestions here, but there are other series I prefer. For monsters, there&#8217;s the currently-airing Ushio and Tora. For Shinto 101 and yokai, there&#8217;s Natsume Yuujin-cho. But my first choice is Mononoke, Kenji Nakamura&#8216;s first series &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/demon-cats-and-other-holiday-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demon cats and other holiday fun&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3NU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626","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=14626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14633,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions\/14633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}