{"id":2844,"date":"2021-10-13T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","slug":"im-not-a-fan-of-halloween-but-i-can-appreciate-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2021\/10\/13\/im-not-a-fan-of-halloween-but-i-can-appreciate-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not a fan of Halloween, but I can appreciate humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/halloween.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/halloween.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nearly Halloween, the most useless American holiday ever created. I don&#8217;t have much to say other than I think the holiday is dumb and I have no desire to argue. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That said, this photo made me smile and I can appreciate the humor behind it. Also, with the exception of Nightmare on Elm Street in which the parents deserved it, the teenagers did deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>Have a fun October. I&#8217;m going to go watch the leaves change color and fall off the trees.<\/p>\n<p>From left to right: Ghostface (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scream_(franchise)\">Scream<\/a>), Chucky (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Child%27s_Play_(franchise)\">Child&#8217;s Play<\/a>), Freddy Kruger (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_(franchise)\">Nightmare on Elm Street<\/a>), Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th), Michael Myers (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halloween_(franchise)\">Halloween<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nearly Halloween, the most useless American holiday ever created. I don&#8217;t have much to say other than I think the holiday is dumb and I have no desire to argue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[172,247],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watchingreading","tag-halloween","tag-movies"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}