{"id":776,"date":"2011-10-31T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-11-07T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:36:19","slug":"princesses-vampires-rainbows-harry-potter-zombies-pumpkins-and-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/2011\/10\/31\/princesses-vampires-rainbows-harry-potter-zombies-pumpkins-and-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"Princesses, Vampires, Rainbows, Harry Potter, Zombies, Pumpkins, and Ninjas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably guessed it already, but I&#8217;m talking about Halloween of course!<\/p>\n<p>This year my friend and I were rainbows. We kinda-sorta-not-really pulled this off by wearing Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet (no Indigo, sorry&#8230;). Unfortunately our costumes were short-sleeved and it was cold. We didn&#8217;t stay out very long.<\/p>\n<p>We actually celebrate Halloween on the weekend because our neighbourhood is full of rednecks who like to drink. An explanation\u00a0 might be required. First and foremost I suggest my mom&#8217;s blog as reference. <a title=\"HOA Heyride\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/hoa-hayride\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/hoa-hayride\/<\/a> Other than that all I&#8217;m going to say is Trick or Drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I actually just wanted to blog about something that I&#8217;ve noticed recently. Mind you, this is a broad observation and doesn&#8217;t ring true for everyone (or anyone, really) But here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve noticed about halloween:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; As a baby you dress up as food and animals. M&amp;M&#8217;s and cows; pumpkins, elephants, pizza, bees, Elmo, <em>maybe<\/em> a sports player or a flower or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Then in the toddler to young child years it&#8217;s all about the heroes. Princesses, Harry Potter, princesses, Superman, Batman, princesses, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; After around 10 it&#8217;s onto the halloween-y type things. Vampires, werewolves, evil fairies, monsters, anything with a mask or face paint. Wings, horns, ears,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and tails are a bonus. Must bee creepy or at least funny. Even better if you are with a matching partner or group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Then there&#8217;s the brief &#8220;I&#8217;m too old for trick-or-treating&#8221; stage. It doesn&#8217;t last long. Who <em>wants<\/em> to turn down free candy?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; During the high school years it&#8217;s full circle. Back to the food and animals. Maybe a sports player or a flower or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;After that I&#8217;ve noticed that it&#8217;s less about the costume and more about the party, especially since no one passes out candy to anyone who looks over 21.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s just my personal assumption. I could be totally off on that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\">~Courtney<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably guessed it already, but I&#8217;m talking about Halloween of course! This year my friend and I were rainbows. We kinda-sorta-not-really pulled this off by wearing Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet (no Indigo, sorry&#8230;). Unfortunately our costumes were short-sleeved and it was cold. We didn&#8217;t stay out very long. We actually celebrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}