{"id":957,"date":"2014-10-31T22:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-11-01T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T14:19:15","slug":"yes-bare-no-bear-halloween-and-more-october-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Yes Bare, No Bear, Halloween and More October Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is Halloween. Ghost and goblins are coming to the door.\u00a0October is the second anniversary of this blog, and\u00a0continues to be a\u00a0 month of surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&#8217;m surprised our house didn&#8217;t get egged by disgruntled trick-or-treaters. And that&#8217;s because my wife decided we would give out pretzels for trick-or-treat. Pretzels! Now, granted they come in bat and jack-lantern shapes, and were packaged in spooky little bags, but pretzels?!?! I thought for sure no kids would want pretzels for trick-or-treat but they were a big hit. Next year we should give out potato chips.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the biggest October surprise of them all.<\/p>\n<p>We drove up to Vermont. It had been three weeks since we last checked on the bear-cam.\u00a0 I took the memory chip out and went inside to see if we had got a picture of the elusive bear. As it turned out, I didn&#8217;t see a bear. I saw a <em>bare-ass!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some teenage-prankster mooned the bear-cam!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2014 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Halloween. Ghost and goblins are coming to the door.\u00a0October is the second anniversary of this blog, and\u00a0continues to be a\u00a0 month of surprises. Tonight, I&#8217;m surprised our house didn&#8217;t get egged by disgruntled trick-or-treaters. And that&#8217;s because my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}