{"id":163,"date":"2004-04-05T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/163"},"modified":"2004-04-05T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-05T19:22:50","slug":"i-see-why-buffy-got-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/163","title":{"rendered":"I See Why Buffy Got It All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires Everywhere!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/mld\/montereyherald\/8267146.htm\"><br \/>\nFrom this article<\/a>, it&#8217;s easy to see why movies and TV have changed a few things&#8230;. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Theirs is not a Hollywood tale, and they laugh at Hollywood conventions: that vampires can be warded off by crosses or cloves of garlic, or that they can&#8217;t be seen in mirrors. Utter nonsense. Vampires were once Catholics, were they not? And if a vampire can be seen, the mirror can see him. And why would you wear garlic around your neck? Are you adding taste?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIon Balasa, 64, explained that there are two ways to stop a vampire, but only one after he or she has risen to feed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the burial, you can insert a long sewing needle, just into the bellybutton,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That will stop them from becoming a vampire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But once they&#8217;ve become vampires, all that&#8217;s left is to dig them up, use a curved haying sickle to remove the heart, burn the heart to ashes on an iron plate, then have the ill relatives drink the ashes mixed with water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Staking vamps through the heart and having them turn immediately to dust is certainly more dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>And surprisingly less icky.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/\">Language Log<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampires Everywhere! From this article, it&#8217;s easy to see why movies and TV have changed a few things&#8230;. Theirs is not a Hollywood tale, and they laugh at Hollywood conventions: that vampires can be warded off by crosses or cloves of garlic, or that they can&#8217;t be seen in mirrors. Utter nonsense. Vampires were once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}