{"id":7129,"date":"2008-10-31T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=7129"},"modified":"2008-10-31T07:40:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T13:40:53","slug":"halloween-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=7129","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though this is technically my second Halloween in Japan, it is my first in a decade and my first in Tokyo.  Halloween is not a big holiday here&#8211;it is probably better known as a day when foreign students get drunk and cause trouble than as a day related to pumpkins, trick or treating, or things lurking under the stairs.  This year there is actually quite a bit of Halloween cheer (paper pumpkins in store windows and black and orange color themes are abundant), which I am told is a recent development, but otherwise October 31 is pretty much the same as October 30.<\/p>\n<p>But that does not mean that there is a lack of horror media for us to enjoy.  With seven titles released so far 2008 has been <a href=\"search.php?posted=true&#038;sort=name&#038;sortAscending=true&#038;name=&#038;system=&#038;year=2008&#038;keywords=&#038;completed=&#038;obtained=&#038;in_progress=\">great year<\/a> for horror games.  Here&#8217;s hoping that you are enjoying this year&#8217;s celebration of ghosts, goblins, and other things that go bump in the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though this is technically my second Halloween in Japan, it is my first in a decade and my first in Tokyo. Halloween is not a big holiday here&#8211;it is probably better known as a day when foreign students get drunk and cause trouble than as a day related to pumpkins, trick or treating, or things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}