{"id":19352,"date":"2020-09-30T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19352"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:32:25","slug":"laughing-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/laughing-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=oct20_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=74&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>By Dan Domench<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She could not have known she would inspire hundreds of schoolgirls over the years to trick-or-treat costumed in long white dresses and strawberry blonde wigs, their faces streaked in pink blush over pale foundation with mouths smeared in blood-red lipstick. She could not foresee a future where impersonators would distort her laugh into a wild cackle echoing through the streets on Halloween. Those of you from my hometown will know I am referring to the legendary Laughing Ghost that haunts the ten-acre St. Joseph Cemetery on the hill overlooking the village center. No, I am not asking for your sympathy for a spirit. I am talking here about my mother.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction by Dan Domench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[440,23],"class_list":["post-19352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-dan-domench","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}