{"id":49761,"date":"2022-10-30T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/it-was-chaos-how-my-halloween-night-out-in-itaewon-went-from-fun-to-horror"},"modified":"2022-10-30T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T02:51:07","slug":"it-was-chaos-how-my-halloween-night-out-in-itaewon-went-from-fun-to-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49761","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was chaos\u2019: how my Halloween night out in Itaewon went from fun to horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had seen that part of Seoul busy before, but never like this \u2013 I couldn\u2019t move. Then we started hearing fire engines<\/p>\n<p>I was in Itaewon last night when what was supposed to be a joyful party devolved into horror. Many people are still trying to process what has happened.<\/p>\n<p>Like many others, I was excited to finally meet friends and spend the night with them. Several members of our group had flown in for the weekend, as borders had recently reopened.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/30\/it-was-chaos-how-my-halloween-night-out-in-itaewon-went-from-fun-to-horror\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had seen that part of Seoul busy before, but never like this \u2013 I couldn\u2019t move. Then we started hearing fire enginesI was in Itaewon last night when what was supposed to be a joyful party devolved into horror. Many people are still trying to process &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions\/49762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}