{"id":5809,"date":"2019-11-02T21:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2019-11-02T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:39:30","slug":"trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2019\/11\/02\/trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent me this cartoon, which I think is very cute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5810\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image0-1024x819.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image0.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image0-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image0-768x614.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t true.\u00a0\u00a0 For whatever reason, our neighborhood gets almost no trick or treaters.\u00a0 Damned if I know why.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a safe enough neighorhood, and Parris and my minions and I always stock lots of candy.<\/p>\n<p>This year was the absolute nadir.\u00a0\u00a0 We got no one at all, not even people we know with a kid in tow.<\/p>\n<p>A pity.\u00a0\u00a0 Halloween used to be my favorite holiday when I was a kid.\u00a0\u00a0 I usually went as a monster of one sort or another, and I was fearless trick or treater, prowling late into the night and knocking on doors blocks and blocks from home, on streets I seldom visited during daylight hours. \u00a0 That brief glimpse into the homes of strangers when the door was opened was part of the thrill.\u00a0\u00a0 In those days you got the usual candy, sure, but also cooler treats, cookies and home baked pies and brownies and little cakes, the caramel apple (no razor blades, that urban myth was years in the future).\u00a0\u00a0 Nor would it ever have dawned on me to bring my mother along.\u00a0\u00a0 I would have been mortified.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All Hallows Eve was for ghoulies and ghosties and kids.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween isn&#8217;t what it was, alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent me this cartoon, which I think is very cute. Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t true.\u00a0\u00a0 For whatever reason, our neighborhood gets almost no trick or treaters.\u00a0 Damned if I know why.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a safe enough neighorhood, and Parris and my minions and I always stock lots of candy. This year was the absolute nadir.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}