{"id":2989,"date":"2012-10-31T11:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2012-10-31T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:14:10","slug":"happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/happy-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I carved a foam (fake) pumpkin. It was the first I&#8217;d made since Rand died and we accidentally lost the dozen or so pumpkins that we had saved over the years. And unlike the one I made for Mom, this one, I used one of the fancy patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1a-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tree-pumpkin1a\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1a-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1a-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1a.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1b-378x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tree-pumpkin1b\" width=\"378\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1b-378x500.jpg 378w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1b-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tree-pumpkin1b.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I think I&#8217;m going to go up to Mom&#8217;s and help her hand out candy. Of course, we get zero kids here in my apartment complex but Mom&#8217;s in a neighborhood and she normally gets a lot. She also enjoys decorating the outside of her house too which helps with the draw. I think I&#8217;ll bring my pumpkin up to display at her house tonight too.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is still hard and bittersweet since it was so strongly tied to a tradition with Rand. But I&#8217;m trying to do new things for the holiday. It&#8217;s not easy because I still feel a little lost about the whole day and don&#8217;t really know what to do with myself, but I&#8217;m trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I carved a foam (fake) pumpkin. It was the first I&#8217;d made since Rand died and we accidentally lost the dozen or so pumpkins that we had saved over the years. And unlike the one I made for Mom, this one, I used one of the fancy patterns. Tonight, I think I&#8217;m going to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1,23,25,15],"tags":[1467,1461,1463,1465,1466,264,1464,737,1080],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general","category-grief","category-holidays","category-photography-and-pics","tag-carve-a-fake-pumpkin","tag-carve-a-pumpkin","tag-carving-pumpkins","tag-fake-pumpkin","tag-foam-pumpkin","tag-halloween","tag-pumkin-carving","tag-rand","tag-samhain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}