{"id":325,"date":"2011-10-30T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-11-04T06:25:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T06:25:50","slug":"a-tokyo-ghost-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"A Tokyo Ghost Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night I went on a tour of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aoyama_Cemetery\"><strong>Aoyama Cemetery<\/strong><\/a>, the biggest and oldest graveyard in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-326\" title=\"Aoyama1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama1-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Local taxi drivers, I heard, won&#8217;t stop here during the hours of darkness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327\" title=\"Aoyama2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They speak of a woman in a blue (or white) dress who hails a cab and asks to be taken to a <strong>nearby destination<\/strong>, calling it by <strong>a strangely old-fashioned name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-328\" title=\"Aoyama3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama3.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But whenever drivers who pick her up take her there, they find she has <strong>vanished<\/strong>, leaving nothing but<strong> a pool of water<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329\" title=\"Aoyama4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama4.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Aoyama4-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whether it&#8217;s <strong>the ghost<\/strong> or <strong>the upholstery-cleaning fees<\/strong> these cabbies fear the most, <strong>no one knows<\/strong>. ;D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went on a tour of Aoyama Cemetery, the biggest and oldest graveyard in Tokyo. Local taxi drivers, I heard, won&#8217;t stop here during the hours of darkness. They speak of a woman in a blue (or white) dress who hails a cab and asks to be taken to a nearby destination, calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}