{"id":302,"date":"2009-10-20T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2009-10-20T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T14:03:22","slug":"halloween-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of unenthusiasm for our upcoming holiday, Halloween. It&#8217;s pretty sad. I remember when I was a kid, all the neighborhoods would be well decorated in Halloween stuff. There were even a lot of really scary looking houses where the owners went all out.<\/p>\n<p>My neighborhood, I&#8217;m sorry to say, isn&#8217;t like that at all. There are a few houses here and there that have a few Halloween decorations, but it was nothing like when I was a kid. There were some pretty awesome houses where people really went all out. My neighborhood is dry compared to what I remember.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just my neighborhood? I&#8217;m pretty sure I live in a middle class area. There are lots of kids who play on the streets. I&#8217;m not in an old folks community or anything. (Although my one coworker lives near me and he is pretty old, OHHH, DISSSS!)<\/p>\n<p>Is this happening in other neighborhoods? This lack of interest in Halloween?<\/p>\n<p>I talked it over with Brian, since money is tight right now, next year I want to totally do up the entire house Halloween. Be one of those houses that everyone looks at, you know? My only hesitation is people stealing Halloween decorations (which honestly I&#8217;m not too worried about) and lack of children to enjoy it. I&#8217;m not sure how many trick or treaters I&#8217;ll get this year, but I want to be ready with lots of candy for them. I&#8217;ll be dressing up for Halloween to hand out candy. I plan to have a get together to watch scary movies and drink beer since it&#8217;s a Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween should be every kids favorite holiday (besides Christmas). It was such a happy time for me and I&#8217;d hate to see our society and people lose interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of unenthusiasm for our upcoming holiday, Halloween. It&#8217;s pretty sad. I remember when I was a kid, all the neighborhoods would be well decorated in Halloween stuff. There were even a lot of really scary looking houses where the owners went all out. My neighborhood, I&#8217;m sorry to say, isn&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}