{"id":8855,"date":"2009-10-23T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2009-10-24T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T21:34:55","slug":"the-yamanote-halloween-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-yamanote-halloween-train\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yamanote Halloween Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October during Halloween a train line in Tokyo is invaded by certain foreigners.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/samuraidave.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/30\/the-yamanote-halloween-train-rides-into-a-sea-of-adversity\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greatpumpkinwm3.jpg\" alt=\"courtesy of Samurai Dave\" title=\"courtesy of Samurai Dave\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greatpumpkinwm3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/greatpumpkinwm3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn previous years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/2009\/10\/14\/yamanote-halloween-train-2009\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">the Yamanote Halloween party<\/a> has resulted in halted trains, vandalism, and general harassment of Japanese passengers unlucky enough to find themselves in train cars targeted by the party-goers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/2009\/10\/14\/yamanote-halloween-train-2009\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Japan Probe<\/a> for the history and info on this year&#8217;s Halloween train. Samurai Dave reports on his 2007 experience: <a href=\"http:\/\/samuraidave.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/30\/the-yamanote-halloween-train-rides-into-a-sea-of-adversity\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Tokyo Yamanote Halloween Train Rides Into a Sea of Adversity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesJPN\/statuses\/4850664330\" class=\"external external_icon\">@jamesjpn<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October during Halloween a train line in Tokyo is invaded by certain foreigners. In previous years, the Yamanote Halloween party has resulted in halted trains, vandalism, and general harassment of Japanese passengers unlucky enough to find themselves in train cars targeted by the party-goers. Have a look at Japan Probe for the history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,51],"tags":[1679,1677,1582,1678,1589,1676],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-only-in-japan","tag-byob","tag-foreigners","tag-halloween-2009","tag-raising-a-ruckus","tag-the-31-posts-of-halloween-2009","tag-yamanote-halloween-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}