{"id":2146,"date":"2005-01-18T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/18\/\/"},"modified":"2005-01-18T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T15:09:16","slug":"2146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/2146\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,1392046,00.html\" rel=\"external\">Vampire on the loose in Birmingham<\/a><br \/>Stories about a man who stalks the streets, sinking his teeth into passers-by, began to emerge from the Ward End area of the city last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/vampire.jpg\" alt=\"vampire teeth\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Guardian Unlimited:<\/strong> According to the rumours, he bit a man walking along the street, then pounced on neighbours who came to his aid. One woman is said to have had a &#8220;chunk&#8221; bitten out of her hand. Local media have since been inundated with calls from people in the city&#8217;s Saltley, Small Heath and Alum Rock areas, who have heard of attacks and of people being bitten after answering their front doors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard the story in the barber&#8217;s the other day,&#8221; said Father Anthony Rohan of the Holy Family Catholic church in Small Heath. &#8220;They asked me if I believed in vampires and I said no. Then the lollipop lady mentioned it to me as well. I&#8217;m not worried, though. I&#8217;ve got a lot of crucifixes in the house.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampire on the loose in BirminghamStories about a man who stalks the streets, sinking his teeth into passers-by, began to emerge from the Ward End area of the city last month. Guardian Unlimited: According to the rumours, he bit a man walking along the street, then pounced on neighbours who came to his aid. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}