{"id":47202,"date":"2016-05-29T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47202"},"modified":"2016-05-29T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T21:53:25","slug":"new-orleans-ii-the-halloween-ghost-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47202","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehistorytourist.com\/2015\/10\/31\/new-orleans-ii-the-halloween-ghost-post\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehistorytourist.com\" target=\"_blank\">The History Tourist<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sakalasunas@thehistorytourist.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan Kalasunas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first chance to encounter a ghost at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourbonorleans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bourbon Orleans Hotel<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> came not long after check-in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we see the ballroom?\u201d I asked the receptionist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. We don\u2019t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open. It\u2019s right up those stairs.\u201d That would be the grand one with the double staircase that swept up to the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>The doors were unlocked but the only light in the room was from street lights peeking through large, heavily draped windows. We wandered in the dark. There\u2019s a ghost associated with the ballroom: a woman who dances, alone, or who hides behind the curtains. I searched for the woman while Mr. History Tourist searched for the light switches. Mr. HT found the switches first and set the chandeliers alight.<\/p>\n<p>This was once the Orleans Ballroom. Says the Bourbon Orleans website: \u201cIn 1817, entrepreneur John David\u2026built the Orleans Ballroom: the oldest, most historic ballroom in New Orleans. When it opened, the ballroom became the setting for\u2026the forever famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\">Quadroon Balls<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/thehistorytourist.com\/2015\/10\/31\/new-orleans-ii-the-halloween-ghost-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. \u201cCan we see the ballroom?\u201d I asked the receptionist. \u201cYes. We don\u2019t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,369,8,20,25],"tags":[23928,1438,3850,23927,23926],"class_list":["post-47202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-bourbon-orleans-hotel","tag-new-orleans","tag-quadroon-balls","tag-susan-kalasunas","tag-the-history-tourist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47203,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202\/revisions\/47203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}