{"id":31,"date":"2007-11-01T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/halloween\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T22:56:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T02:56:29","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burfeind.net\/gallery\/main.php\/v\/Halloween_2007\/\"><img align=\"left\" alt=\"Scary Sammy\" title=\"Scary Sammy\" src=\"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/images\/blog\/sammy_scary.jpg\" \/><\/a>We just knew that last year would be the last time Sammy would want to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burfeind.net\/gallery\/main.php\/v\/October2006\/sammy_on_halloween.jpg.html\">some sort of animal<\/a> for Halloween.  So, we were pretty impressed when Sammy&#8217;s choice this year was to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burfeind.net\/gallery\/main.php\/v\/Halloween_2007\/\">an astronaut<\/a>.  We got him a great orange jumpsuit, with plenty of flight commander patches, and a space shuttle backpack, with flames coming out of the bottom.  It was pretty cool.  He was the only astronaut on the block, and got plenty of compliments on it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a little dicey that we&#8217;d even get to go out last night&#8230;Sammy was running a temperature in the afternoon, and we had to go pick him up early.  Still, he rallied, probably at the thought of all that candy. We didn&#8217;t get a lot of kids visiting this year, and had lots of leftover candy. Happily, we had tried to buy only stuff that we don&#8217;t like, so I took the rest of it to work, and it was gone before I knew it.  I&#8217;m amazed the people I work with aren&#8217;t 300 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>We also made a couple of jack-o-lanterns over the weekend to get into the Halloween spirit.  Sammy helped, directing Jennifer on how to draw the faces.  We, of course, did all the work&#8230;and it&#8217;s harder work than we remembered carving through a thick pumpkin, then scooping out all the gunk inside. This is not the first time that the realities of parenthood have conflicted with my memories of childhood, and I suspect it won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Michelle took some pictures of Sammy when she and Kevin got home on Halloween, and sent us <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodakgallery.com\/I.jsp?c=hmlw4uv.2anfoukn&#038;x=0&#038;y=3wec2m%3E\">the link to the Kodak Gallery<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just knew that last year would be the last time Sammy would want to be some sort of animal for Halloween. So, we were pretty impressed when Sammy&#8217;s choice this year was to be an astronaut. We got him a great orange jumpsuit, with plenty of flight commander patches, and a space shuttle backpack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,14,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/burfeind.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}