{"id":4899,"date":"2009-10-29T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2009-10-20T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:03:40","slug":"this-years-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shadowboy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/shadowboy-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"Shadowboy\" title=\"Shadowboy\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><\/a>As is customary, I have to show off my little guy in his Halloween finery (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p>I predicted last year that it was probably the last Halloween when I was going to be allowed to dictate his costume, but fortunately he&#8217;s become rather passionate about wizards so it wasn&#8217;t too hard to chivvy him in that direction.  Someday, though, he&#8217;s going to come home and announce that he wants to be Spiderman and then my little brocade-and-velvet-loving heart is going to shatter into a million pieces.*<\/p>\n<p>This portrait will join the others in my Halloween gallery: We do a professional 8&#215;10 photo of him in costume every year, choose an appropriate-looking frame (this one will go in a bronze frame with lots of twisty metal bits), and add it to the lineup.  It&#8217;s a nice year-round reminder of our favorite holiday.<\/p>\n<p>What are you doing for Halloween this year?<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*And then I&#8217;ll sweep up the pieces and start figuring out how I can make him a functional web shooter, because my family motto is, &#8220;If a Thing is Worth Doing, it is Worth Overdoing.&#8221;  But that&#8217;s another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is customary, I have to show off my little guy in his Halloween finery (click to enlarge). I predicted last year that it was probably the last Halloween when I was going to be allowed to dictate his costume, but fortunately he&#8217;s become rather passionate about wizards so it wasn&#8217;t too hard to chivvy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4932,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}