{"id":18899,"date":"2013-10-30T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T01:10:51","slug":"eat-drink-and-be-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18899","title":{"rendered":"Eat, drink and be scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9713\" target=\"_blank\">All Hallow&#8217;s Eve<\/a>, which I heard today has become the second biggest holiday in this country. Considering the amount of decorations that are in front of my house right now, I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m down. <\/p>\n<p>This holiday resonates with me on a much deeper level &#8211; other than in my dreaming life, it is the only day that I might come close to those who have passed as the veil between us thins. I will spend my day tomorrow focusing on this wondrous interstitial place as I think of my parents and grandparents, uncles and cousins who have transitioned out of this life. I long for nothing more than to touch them through a gauzy curtain of love. <\/p>\n<p>We have lots of trashy candy here filling up the African wedding blood bowl for the trick or treaters, and will go to Fortier Park where we join the revelry there of kids in costumes and parents smiling behind them. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll be looking in the alleys and up in the trees for my loved ones as they smile behind me. <\/p>\n<p>Oh ancestors, hear my words: I miss you so. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18900\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=18900\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648\" data-orig-size=\"2736,3648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G12&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1377038972&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"willow-o-wispsmsm-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?fit=640%2C853\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?resize=640%2C853\" alt=\"willow-o-wispsmsm-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?w=2736 2736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/willow-o-wispsmsm-2.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afunnybunnypicture.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Anastasia Traina ~2013~<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is All Hallow&#8217;s Eve, which I heard today has become the second biggest holiday in this country. Considering the amount of decorations that are in front of my house right now, I&#8217;d say I&#8217;m down. This holiday resonates with me on a much deeper level &#8211; other than in my dreaming life, it is the only day that I might come close to those who have passed as the veil between us thins. I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4UP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18903,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions\/18903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}