{"id":99,"date":"2006-10-29T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2006-10-30T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:51:09","slug":"happy-early-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/happy-early-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy (Early) Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian and I went out for Halloween last night. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday because it combines three of my loves, the color orange; dressing up in costume and free candy. <\/p>\n<p>Kristian and I went as an English Butler and a French Maid. You know, because the butler always did it&#8230; and he&#8217;s <i>always<\/i> in cahoots with the maid.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/282606523\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/84\/282606523_92031f5c64_m.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Kristian and Me in Our Halloween Costumes\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs you can see, I upheld my sacred duty as a twenty-something female to wear something short and low-cut. <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everyone in our little family loved my costume. Kristian loved it because of the aforementioned shortness and low-cutedness. Sophie loved it because my feather duster made a handy dandy cat toy.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/282604235\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/82\/282604235_92a1b0d971_m.jpg?resize=160%2C240\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Tormenting the Cat\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSophie: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what kind of bird that is, but I&#8217;m going to kill it. Also, since when am I been 3 feet tall?&#8221;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>We went to a couple of Halloween parties, because we are popular and people wanted to party with us in our fabulous costumes. Actually, that&#8217;s a lie&#8230; we invited ourselves to the first party and everyone and their llama was invited to the second. Still, I like to think that we&#8217;re popular. <\/p>\n<p>Both parties were a lot of fun. And I have the pictures to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/282601665\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/82\/282601665_b1fdeae95b_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Erin\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nErin has nice cookies. Also, those pastries look pretty tasty.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/282600982\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/83\/282600982_9fb794a4f1_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Me, Dusting\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhat to do when you&#8217;re dressed like a maid and there are fake cobwebs&#8230;? Answer: dust.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/282600281\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/100\/282600281_0821d200f1_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"The iPod Commercial\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTerrance and Lianne as a very blurry iPod commercial.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any pictures of the second party, but it was crazy. What with the cop punching the ballerina and the cowboy dancing on the table. (Did I mention that I <i>love<\/i> Halloween?!?) Kristian and I hung out for awhile but decided that it was time to leave because &#8220;it ain&#8217;t over until Keith Richards hits you in the head with his guitar.&#8221; Well, Keith Richards conked me but good. So, I took off my heels and hobbled home. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m slightly bruised and my feet are sore, but it sure was fun. I probably shouldn&#8217;t wear the french maid costume on Tuesday, when the trick or treaters get here&#8230; but I&#8217;m looking forward to getting dressed up again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristian and I went out for Halloween last night. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday because it combines three of my loves, the color orange; dressing up in costume and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}