{"id":1410,"date":"2015-11-01T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1410-halloween-prayer.html"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T02:57:19","slug":"halloween-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1410-halloween-prayer.html","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:1963 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"696\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1239-_MG_1466.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe event we call &#8216;Halloween&#8217; is becoming bigger and bigger in Australia every year. For us this is a relatively new thing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs kids growing up in a small South Australian country town, Halloween was some strange ritual played out in American movies involving kids dressing up in scary costumes soliciting treats from well prepared locals.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI recall one of my enterprising friends (thank you Squish!) tried to organise a &#8216;Trick or Treat&#8217; expedition one Halloween evening which ended up very badly with confused locals and several threats to call the police.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow I see Halloween embraced everywhere. I wonder how many caught up in the costumes and pranks really understand its origins.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nImage by artist Joshua Smith, found in an Adelaide alleyway. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Halloween Prayer&#8217;, 1\/50s f\/2.5 ISO640 50mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event we call &#8216;Halloween&#8217; is becoming bigger and bigger in Australia every year. For us this is a relatively new thing. As kids growing up in a small South Australian country town, Halloween was some strange ritual played out in American movies involving kids dressing up in scary costumes soliciting treats from well prepared &#8230; <a title=\"Halloween Prayer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1410-halloween-prayer.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Halloween Prayer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}