{"id":233,"date":"2008-02-18T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/18\/no-ghosts-allowed\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T04:10:55","slug":"no-ghosts-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/18\/no-ghosts-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ghosts Allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ghostbusters.jpg\" title=\"ghosts banned ghostbusters symbol\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ghostbusters.jpg\" alt=\"ghosts banned ghostbusters symbol\" height=\"209\" width=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monsters unite! Seems like a case for the anti-discrimination board: ghosts and monsters are not welcome at the Beijing Olympics!<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to make the city respectable in the lead up to the Olympics &#8212; that symbol of Unity, Freedom and Right Behaviour &#8212; the Chinese General Administration of Press and Publications has banned the production of films that feature such anti-social subjects as  &#8220;wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/fengdu-ghost.jpg\" title=\"Chinese ghost\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/fengdu-ghost.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese ghost\" height=\"335\" width=\"492\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim is to &#8220;control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents&#8217; psychological health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes&#8230; horror films and books will rot your brain and destroy society. Life was much safer, more decent and more moral before <em>Dracula<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For the full story as reported by Reuters, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSN1442888920080214\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters unite! Seems like a case for the anti-discrimination board: ghosts and monsters are not welcome at the Beijing Olympics! In an attempt to make the city respectable in the lead up to the Olympics &#8212; that symbol of Unity, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/18\/no-ghosts-allowed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}