{"id":20794,"date":"2013-10-13T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T00:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20794"},"modified":"2013-10-13T20:09:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T00:09:52","slug":"the-eerie-the-weird-the-unexplained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/13\/the-eerie-the-weird-the-unexplained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eerie! The Weird! The Unexplained!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, you did see the &#8220;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-horror-in-three-sentences\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-horror-in-three-sentences\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">horror in three sentences<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<\/strong> contest, right?<\/p>\n<p>Second, you <em>also <\/em>saw the <a title=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/02\/the-terribleminds-pumpkin-carving-contest\/\" href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/10\/02\/the-terribleminds-pumpkin-carving-contest\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pumpkin-carving contest<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, right?<\/p>\n<p>OKAY GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>Today, not a contest, but a question in theme with the ghoulish delights that the month of October seems to bring with it &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all had freaky things happen to us.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost stories. Strange sightings. Inexplicable happenings.<\/p>\n<p>Glitches in the Matrix, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to hear about them. Hop down into the comments and let &#8217;em fly. True stories! As true as you can recall them. And while not specifically a contest, I will choose three random commenters to receive a copy of my short story collection, <strong>Irregular Creatures<\/strong>, in e-book format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, you did see the &#8220;horror in three sentences&#8220; contest, right? Second, you also saw the pumpkin-carving contest, right? OKAY GOOD. Today, not a contest, but a question in theme with the ghoulish delights that the month of October seems to bring with it &#8212; We&#8217;ve all had freaky things happen to us. Ghost stories. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20797,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20794\/revisions\/20797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}