{"id":1796,"date":"2004-10-31T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2004-10-31T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T02:34:13","slug":"happy-samhain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/31\/happy-samhain\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Samhain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/gallery\/misc\/jacko2004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/albums\/misc\/jacko2004.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Hallowe'en 2004\" title=\"Hallowe'en 2004\" name=\"photo_j\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" width=\"160\"><\/a><br \/>\nNot bad for my first attempt at pumpkin carving. It smells pretty bad when it&#8217;s got the full complement of candles charring the inside.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 9:30pm<\/strong>: Phew&nbsp;&mdash; it&#8217;s over. We handed out something like $60-worth of candy tonight. I had to make two emergency runs to the shops to get more. I have to say, this &#8220;Trick or Treat&#8221; thing is getting off lightly. When I was a kid in Glasgow, we&#8217;d go <em>guising<\/em>, all costumed up, and we each did a little party piece (song, poem, joke) to earn our loot. We had a retired teacher as a neighbour, and she was a difficult audience. You&#8217;d spend about five minutes inside each house, not just a few seconds at the door. Kids today, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not bad for my first attempt at pumpkin carving. It smells pretty bad when it&#8217;s got the full complement of candles charring the inside. Update, 9:30pm: Phew&nbsp;&mdash; it&#8217;s over. We handed out something like $60-worth of candy tonight. I had to make two emergency runs to the shops to get more. I have to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[1848,1408],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-halloween","tag-pumpkin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}