{"id":2685,"date":"2014-05-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:09:17","slug":"chasing-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/2685\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you\u2019re having trouble with the ghosts in your home? They\u2019re in your room, behind the cupboard? And under the cellar stairs, too? Listen! I\u2019ve also met them, and I have some experience with them. Mine were probably not exactly the same ghosts you\u2019ve met, but I bet yours are similar to the mean characters which hung around my house. When I was a child, I often came across them and still do today, now and then. When I was little, I was terribly afraid of them. Then I discovered something about them:<\/p>\n<p>In reality, they can\u2019t do much, they only behave as if they can. Their only aim is to make you afraid. When they manage that, it gives them a kick. When they don\u2019t manage it, they get bored. And when they are bored for too long, they go away. You can annoy the ghosts, too. For example, you say: \u201cGood morning dear ghost! How are you today? Did you sleep well? Do you want to come and have some breakfast?\u201d Then the ghost gets really angry. Perhaps it then tries to make you more scared. But if you continue in this way, it loses interest in you and soon looks for something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you\u2019re having trouble with the ghosts in your home? They\u2019re in your room, behind the cupboard? And under the cellar stairs, too? Listen! I\u2019ve also met them, and I have some experience with them. Mine were probably not exactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/2685\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,246,235,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear","category-monsters","category-obsessive-compulsive-disorder","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}