{"id":303,"date":"2007-11-10T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wingfamily.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/halloween-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T16:17:26","slug":"halloween-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/2007\/11\/10\/halloween-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another Halloween. I guess since they are getting a little older, Andrew and Matthew were particularly excited about Halloween this year. Lisa bought a few decorations and put them up. For one of our Family Home Evening activities we made a haunted gingerbread house. Andrew got to wear his costume to school on Halloween. He was Frankenstein. Matthew was a fireman (with a dog in its pocket, as he had to tell everyone when he went trick or treating). Christine was a zebra (courtesy of Mom). Lisa stayed home to give out candy while I took the boys out and pushed Christine in the stroller. The boys both got a lot of candy, and then we headed to Hilda Street where they got some more. I&#8217;ve taken pictures from most of these things and you can see them in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wingfamily.ca\/gallery\/categories.php?cat_id=144\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween 2007<\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things Andrew was most excited about happened a few days after Halloween. He got a new book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/0439935695?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pcin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=15121&amp;creative=330641&amp;creativeASIN=0439935695\">13 Ghosts of Halloween<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.ca\/e\/ir?t=pcin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=15&amp;a=0439935695\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/>.  It had a &#8220;song&#8221; that was to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas. Here are the words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/13_ghost_of_halloween_cover.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"13_ghost_of_halloween_cover.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the twelfth stroke of midnight<br \/>\nOh, nothing frightens me!<br \/>\nNot twelve vampires rising<br \/>\nEleven goblins giggling<br \/>\nTen werewolves howling<br \/>\nNine witches cackling<br \/>\nEight mummies moaning<br \/>\nSeven spiders grinning<br \/>\nFive bogeymen<br \/>\nFour darting bats<br \/>\nThree black cats<br \/>\nTwo shrunken heads<br \/>\nOr a vulture in a dead tree<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another Halloween. I guess since they are getting a little older, Andrew and Matthew were particularly excited about Halloween this year. Lisa bought a few decorations and put them up. For one of our Family Home Evening activities we made a haunted gingerbread house. Andrew got to wear his costume to school on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-home-evening","category-holidays","category-school-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}