{"id":680,"date":"2011-10-31T19:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T01:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2011-12-02T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T03:17:56","slug":"pumpkin-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/pumpkin-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Halloween, while most kids are trying to decide what to &#8220;be&#8221; for Halloween, the big question at our house is, &#8220;What am I going to carve on my pumpkin?&#8221; \u00a0This question has to be considered usually a good week or so in advance of the pumpkin purchase, because after all, how do you know what size and shape pumpkin to get unless you have your plan, right? \u00a0We are starting to get a reputation as the house with the cool pumpkins!<\/p>\n<p>Almost as an afterthought, about an hour before going out with their friends, my kids start thinking seriously about their costumes. My job is to take the kids pumpkin shopping, make hot dog mummies for dinner and take the pictures. \u00a0Oh, and trick or treat all the little kids and the not so little kids that come to the door.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1332.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"Ah, the fun and art of pumpkin carving...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1332.jpg?resize=474%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1332.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1332.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSCF1332.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Halloween, while most kids are trying to decide what to &#8220;be&#8221; for Halloween, the big question at our house is, &#8220;What am I going to carve on my pumpkin?&#8221; \u00a0This question has to be considered usually a good week or so in advance of the pumpkin purchase, because after all, how do you know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/pumpkin-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pumpkin Fun&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9LkuZ-aY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brown8.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}