{"id":61,"date":"2003-11-03T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/hiding-from-trick-or-treaters\/"},"modified":"2003-11-03T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T00:56:43","slug":"hiding-from-trick-or-treaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/hiding-from-trick-or-treaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding from trick-or-treaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my neighbors: <\/p>\n<p>I apologize if you knocked on our door on Friday, hoping for candy and no one answered the door. We hadn&#8217;t bought any candy and weren&#8217;t really in the mood to deal with halloween. So after Anne picked me up at work, we circled the neighborhood a few times to see how much activity there was. There were a lot of kids roaming around, so we decided to go out to eat. <\/p>\n<p>The problem was I wasn&#8217;t feeling that great, and we couldn&#8217;t decide where to eat, so we just ended up driving around for a while until we just decided to go back to work and hide out there for a while. I never do get very many opportunities to take advantage of the air hockey or pool tables anyway. I&#8217;m happy to say both matches were a trouncing! (In my favor, of course.) After hanging around a bit more, we thought it would be safe to return home for dinner at 9. <\/p>\n<p>The coast was clear when we got home. The cat sure was freaked out though &#8211; he yelled at us, seemly saying &#8220;There were all these people coming to the door and ringing the doorbell and I was really scared!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve successfully whimped out of Halloween, my favorite part of is now here &#8211; the post-holiday discount candy. We picked up some candy corn for ourselves this weekend. Yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my neighbors: I apologize if you knocked on our door on Friday, hoping for candy and no one answered the door. We hadn&#8217;t bought any candy and weren&#8217;t really in the mood to deal with halloween. So after Anne picked me up at work, we circled the neighborhood a few times to see how &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/hiding-from-trick-or-treaters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Hiding from trick-or-treaters&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}