{"id":50,"date":"2006-10-31T20:07:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T01:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatusmuse.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/31\/weird-halloween"},"modified":"2006-10-31T20:07:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T01:07:51","slug":"weird-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2006\/10\/31\/weird-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!B17FB9382CECD331!720\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\">Well, this has been a strange Halloween. The boys went out trick-or-treating for the first time; they were out for a half-hour because that&#8217;s all that Hubby could stand. Boy #1 went out at Queequeg from Moby Dick; he used his Caliban costume from last year&#8217;s Shakespeare play (a leopard-print poncho), my winter hat (a brown thing with a curled brim and a highish crown), and a &quot;harpoon&quot; made from a broom handle and tin foil. His sister painted a checkerboard &quot;tattoo&quot; on one side of his face. Boy #2 went out as a pirate, wearing my father&#8217;s tricorne hat, a sash I provided, his brother&#8217;s wooden scimitar&#8230; and the red superhero cape that his Nana made for him and sent last week.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\"><\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\">We were one of only two houses on our street giving out candy. Seriously! We had two trick-or-treaters show up, and that was at the same time. According to the Girl, most everyone was going trick-or-treating in the rich parts of town. Our neighbors to the right of us, the ones with two little boys, took their boys elsewhere, too, to trick-or-treat with cousins (I can see that as a reason, really). I have no idea what we&#8217;re going to do with all the Starbursts and Skittles we bought; maybe donate them to the church&#8217;s kids&#8217; program? I guess we&#8217;ll see.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\"><\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\">NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. I&#8217;m looking forward to it and dreading it at the same time. My brain has been fried over the past couple of days and I&#8217;ve been dealing with some neuropathic pain and neuralgia. Probably brought it on myself by not eating right. I was hoping to get another chapter of <em>The White Winds<\/em> under my belt before the month started, but it doesn&#8217;t look like that&#8217;s going to happen. Did get some stuff written for the RP, and I&#8217;ll update the websites with the caption contest winners and all. I&#8217;m just feeling rather burned out at the moment. Not a good way to start the month.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\"><\/font>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff6600\" size=\"3\">More as the muse moves.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this has been a strange Halloween. The boys went out trick-or-treating for the first time; they were out for a half-hour because that&#8217;s all that Hubby could stand. Boy #1 went out at Queequeg from Moby Dick; he used his Caliban costume from last year&#8217;s Shakespeare play (a leopard-print poncho), my winter hat (a brown thing with a curled brim and a highish crown), and a &quot;harpoon&quot; made from a broom handle and tin foil. His sister painted a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2006\/10\/31\/weird-halloween\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-life-in-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8AOo6-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}