{"id":1114,"date":"2009-10-29T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2009-10-29T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:37:00","slug":"all-hail-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"All hail Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/supereggplant\/4057416036\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3518\/4057416036_feaa1f4746.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/supereggplant\/4057416036\/\">All hail Halloween<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/supereggplant\/\">super eggplant<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIt probably goes without saying that I love candy and that Halloween has always been my favorite holiday (but I guess it&#8217;s not REALLY a holiday). I unboxed and prepped the Halloween candies this evening, so we are ready! There are 90 full-size candies, so after 90 kids (or maybe fewer, since some of the candies might need to be &#8220;tested&#8221; before the actual holiday), that&#8217;s it! Lights out!<\/p>\n<p>I remember roaming the streets of NW Portland with a pillowcase. It was always such a thrill to feel the thunk of the candy hitting the bottom of the sack. I remember one house gave out pennies, which I actually thought was rather cool (how naive was I!). Once home, my brother and I would compare our bounties and arrange the candies by category: chocolate, hard candies, icky ones. I think my favorites were M&#038;Ms and Hershey&#8217;s bars, but I don&#8217;t really remember. Kids nowadays seem to go for the sour or gummi candies. What were your favorites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hail Halloween, originally uploaded by super eggplant. It probably goes without saying that I love candy and that Halloween has always been my favorite holiday (but I guess it&#8217;s not REALLY a holiday). I unboxed and prepped the Halloween &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}