{"id":551,"date":"2005-10-27T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/the-jackolantern\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T03:34:00","slug":"the-jackolantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/the-jackolantern\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jack-O’-Lantern!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t get home until 4:30pm, but when I did arrive, there was a clear winner in the Jack-O’-Lantern Design Contest<\/a>. The very cute “Yawn!” won – yay! Good work, dark_pheonix<\/b><\/a>! In second place was the also cute “Alien” by capriuni<\/b><\/a>. Thanks to both of you for your wonderful contributions. I should be set for the next 13 years’ Halloweens. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So the next stage was to actually carve the design into my pumpkin. I did my best to replicate dark_pheonix<\/b><\/a>‘s design. And I decided to do a step-by-step photo tutorial on carving a pumpkin. I have included this in my LiveJournal gallery. If you click here<\/a>, you can see the whole 20 step process. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But I know what you REALLY want to see. You want to see the final result. <\/p>\n

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Jack at the front door, greeting the Trick-Or-Treaters.<\/p>\n

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Jack in the dark!<\/center><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n

I wound up having 73 Trick-Or-Treaters. A little less than last year. And I had more candy than last year – so I guess the juniors and seniors get candy tomorrow. \ud83d\ude42 The folks were over at Granny’s giving out candy and they ran out. After 146 kids came to trick-or-treat. Wow, what a difference living on a main drag makes! <\/p>\n

My costume this year for Dress Up for UNICEF (a yearly tradition at the high school) was very simple. I borrowed dad’s trench coat, wore my khaki jeans, brown shoes, sunglasses, and fedora. I also had a newspaper with 2 eye holes cut out, and brought my itty bitty digital camera with me. Yup, I was a private dick<\/s> eye. What I need to do next year is get a pinstripe suit and violin case, wear my sister’s black fedora, and go as a Chicago Mobster. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So, another successful Beggar’s Night. I hope those of you who actually have beggar’s night on the same night as Halloween (wow! what a concept!) I hope that you have as much fun as I have. And remember, if you have half as much fun as me, then I’ve had twice as much fun as you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t get home until 4:30pm, but when I did arrive, there was a clear winner in the Jack-O’-Lantern Design Contest. The very cute “Yawn!” won – yay! Good work, dark_pheonix! In second place was the also cute “Alien” by capriuni. Thanks to both of you for your wonderful contributions. I should be set for […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}