{"id":3679,"date":"2009-10-31T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:50:00","slug":"northridge-halloween-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"Northridge Halloween Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A number of our neighbors do big Halloween displays. As a result, we get less neighborhood kids, and much more \u201cdrive-in\u201d trick-or-treating. In some ways, I prefer the neighborhood kids, as you get to say \u201chi\u201d.\n<li>I much prefer creative costumes to store-bought, and creative masks to stock masks. It is, however, fun to see the parents dressing up.\n<li>My favorite costume was this youth in a suit and tie with a metal briefcase, going \u201ctax or treat\u201d. I thought he was a Wall-Street banker. I was scared.\n<li>My favorite adult (no names) was the father who came to the door with a shot glass. He got Chivas.\n<li>The kids are coming in waves. Young and old. Toddlers and high-school kids. Yet <i>our<\/i> high school kid is off at a party, leaving us to attend the door. We even have some college kids.\n<li>It\u2019s disturbing, however, to see some of the costumes, which are much more sexed-up than children ought to be wearing. Then again, we\u2019ve had a number of kids dressed as priests. Again, scary.\n<li>We\u2019ve had a large number of kids with wings. Must be the \u201cin\u201d thing.\n<li>By the end of the evening, we went through about 3 large bags, or about 15 lbs, of candy. No, I didn\u2019t eat it all. Just a few pieces.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of our neighbors do big Halloween displays. As a result, we get less neighborhood kids, and much more \u201cdrive-in\u201d trick-or-treating. In some ways, I prefer the neighborhood kids, as you get to say \u201chi\u201d. I much prefer creative costumes to store-bought, and creative masks to stock masks. It is, however, fun to see <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3679\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}