{"id":1850,"date":"2009-10-30T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2009-10-30T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T22:03:38","slug":"costume-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/10\/30\/costume-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Costume Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody wrote a letter to the editor here, suggesting that parents have their kids dress up as biblical character to offset the pagan influence of Halloween.  He wrote that Halloween &#8220;&#8230;has become a superstitious and empty way of imposing mindless triviality.&#8221; Funny, that sounds more like religion than trick-or-treating to me.  He also writes that those who celebrate Halloween &#8220;are in reality celebrating death&#8230;.&#8221;  Unlike Good Friday, I guess.  In the comments, one person suggested that <strong><em>adults<\/em><\/strong> dress up like priests and chase the little boys around.  I thought maybe I&#8217;d dress up like Jesus (got the beard, but I think I look to Irish; if Jesus had been Irish, they&#8217;d have had beer instead of wine at the Last Supper) and bring a big bag of stones, which I would toss at people who are, themselves, with sin, yet cast aspersions on <strong><em>others<\/em><\/strong>.  I&#8217;d need an awful lot of rocks, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody wrote a letter to the editor here, suggesting that parents have their kids dress up as biblical character to offset the pagan influence of Halloween. He wrote that Halloween &#8220;&#8230;has become a superstitious and empty way of imposing mindless triviality.&#8221; Funny, that sounds more like religion than trick-or-treating to me. He also writes that [&hellip;]<\/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-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}