{"id":765,"date":"2021-01-11T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=765"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:34:14","slug":"kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-lafcadio-hearn-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-lafcadio-hearn-1904\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwaidan. Stories and Studies of Strange Things &#8211; Lafcadio Hearn (1904)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A collection of weird <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-1904\">short stories<\/a> with ghosts heads that talk on their own, magical beings. Macabre but beautiful at the same time, with genuine, passionate love in nearly every story. A fantastic immersion in traditional Japanese tales. A second part on insects and an analysis of ants&#8217; organisation that put the species&#8217; welfare above the individual interest. Lafcadio Hearn raises a question: &#8220;And what if humans could follow this model of society ?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;When the wish is there, the eyes can say as much as the mouth&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-colibri-color-4-color\">Contents<\/span><\/strong><br>The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi \/ Oshidori \/ The story of O-Tei \/ Ubazakura \/ Diplomacy \/ Of a Mirror and a Bell \/ Jikininki \/ Mujina \/ Rokuro-Kubi \/ A Dead Secret \/ Yuki-Onna \/ The Story of Oayagi \/ Jiu-Roku-Zakura \/ The Dream of Akinosuke \/ Riki-Baka \/ Hi-Mawari \/ Horai \/ Insect Studies \/ Mosquitoes \/ Ants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of weird short stories with ghosts heads that talk on their own, magical beings. Macabre but beautiful at the same time, with genuine, passionate love in nearly every story. A fantastic immersion in traditional Japanese tales. A second part on insects and an analysis of ants&#8217; organisation that put the species&#8217; welfare above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[19,24,48],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/david-higgins-dSM6qcdS7Hk-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}