{"id":4037,"date":"2017-10-31T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2018-04-12T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T03:25:38","slug":"halloween-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Halloween and Other Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?attachment_id=4038\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9818-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9818-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9818-3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9818-3-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_9818-3-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry; I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3503\">bring a pumpkin to the beach again this year<\/a>. This is just a different shot of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pumpkin. I like to get my money\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth whenever possible. Nor, to my knowledge, have I walked around with a large toothpaste stain on my clothes like last year. There was no need, however; I took care of the ill-kept look yesterday by getting all the way to school and helping the kids out of the car with their bags and instruments without noticing I had a sock wadded up between my thigh and my jeans. Had I been teaching, I can only imagine what my discovery would have looked like, when, perhaps five minutes into first period, I were to discover a wad protruding from my leg that couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be removed without undressing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">When these things happen, it always makes me wonder about things I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably done and never even noticed. There are the things you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but notice you are doing, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2727\">chasing your lens cap across your son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basketball court<\/a> during one of his games. Then, there are the things you only realize because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2327\">a bank teller points them out to you post-transaction<\/a>. So, what if no one brings them to your attention? Just curious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Sorry. I did intend to write something pithy about Halloween but the above just came out all quick-like. Now I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think of anything pithy, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just close with wishes for a happy Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Enjoy the day, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry; I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring a pumpkin to the beach again this year. This is just a different shot of last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pumpkin. I like to get my money\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth whenever possible. Nor, to my knowledge, have I walked around with a large toothpaste stain on my clothes like last year. There was no need, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2239,2238,1592,105,2240],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-embarrassing-myself-again","tag-halloween-at-the-beach","tag-island-halloween","tag-island-life","tag-not-enough-candy-to-overcome-certain-embarrassments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}