{"id":1146,"date":"2013-11-01T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/share.cassity.us\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:16:40","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/gJyOu1tzFN\/embed\/\" height=\"710\" width=\"612\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We gave out $60 worth of candy in two hours. One piece at a time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Say trick or treat&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;say thank you.&#8221; \u2014\u00a0said practically every parent that shuffled their kids to our doorstep. Parents: brief your kids before they go out. It makes no sense to go through this process over and over.<\/p>\n<p>The costumes were lame, tossed-on, store-bought things. Most common were Disney princess (Ariel?) and some grey and red superhero. Very few kids w\/ face paint. I didn&#8217;t see even one paper bag head. A lot of the parents had excellent costumes though.<\/p>\n<p>I was more annoyed at parents collecting candy on behalf of infants than I was at uncostumed teens with shopping bags.<\/p>\n<ul>\nParent presents me w\/ open bag, &#8220;trick or treat&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Who&#8217;s that for?&#8221;<br \/>\nBag holder: &#8220;The baby.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: Looks at sleeping baby in stroller, &#8220;The baby has to ask for it.&#8221; <\/ul>\n<p>A funny thing (that I probably did as a kid) was the candy analysis while walking away. &#8220;Yes, Nerds!&#8221; or &#8220;sort of look at the generic lollipop and dump it back in the sack w\/o comment.&#8221; A neighbor appeared to be giving out bags of Doritos.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Jokes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking a dog if it was dressed up as a dog.<\/li>\n<li>Calling kids a similar costume Hey Tiger (giraffe), Hey Spiderman (Superman), Hey Chewbacca (werewolf)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Giving the Angry Bird kids Swedish Fish. Nerds for the geeky kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gave out $60 worth of candy in two hours. One piece at a time. &#8220;Say trick or treat&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;say thank you.&#8221; \u2014\u00a0said practically every parent that shuffled their kids to our doorstep. Parents: brief your kids before they go out. It makes no sense to go through this process over and over. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/halloween\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halloween<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}