{"id":795,"date":"2005-10-26T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T01:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=795"},"modified":"2005-10-26T22:27:12","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T01:27:12","slug":"with-halloween-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"With Halloween approaching,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/spider_halloween.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-spider_halloween.jpg' alt='asp_ider' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>his Yahoo item <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051026\/ap_on_re_eu\/spooked_by_halloween;_ylt=Am4Sc2nREYT4os3ut4EyBrms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-\">has me thinking<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;Although Halloween has become increasingly popular across Europe \u00e2\u20ac\u201d complete with carved pumpkins, witches on broomsticks, makeshift houses of horror and costumed children rushing door to door for candy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s begun to breed a backlash.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>So, has Halloween really become popular? And what made you guys in Europe <em>buy<\/em> into it? Was it the <em>chocolate<\/em> producers lobby?\n<\/p>\n<p>Or was it the <em>pumpkins<\/em> (I&#8217;ve never seen pumpkins in Holland though, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re around)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Yahoo item has me thinking: &#8220;Although Halloween has become increasingly popular across Europe \u00e2\u20ac\u201d complete with carved pumpkins, witches on broomsticks, makeshift houses of horror and costumed children rushing door to door for candy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s begun to breed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}