{"id":1871,"date":"2007-01-26T12:13:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2007-01-26T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:13:44","slug":"todays-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s horror story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i>The Times<\/i>, women <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-2566549,00.html\">being murdered in China<\/a> to be &#8220;ghost brides&#8221; for dead peasant men. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The men preyed on the superstitions of ill-educated farmers eager to ensure that a dead son was happy in the afterlife. It is not uncommon in rural parts of China for a family to seek out the body of a woman who has died to be buried alongside their son after the performance of a marriage ceremony for the deceased pair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a great believer in claims about the &#8220;good old days&#8221;, and romantic visions of peasants as close to the land. This sort of thing only helps to confirm that view. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Times, women being murdered in China to be &#8220;ghost brides&#8221; for dead peasant men. The men preyed on the superstitions of ill-educated farmers eager to ensure that a dead son was happy in the afterlife. It is not uncommon in rural parts of China for a family to seek out the body of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}