{"id":786,"date":"2010-11-01T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=786"},"modified":"2010-11-01T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:54:00","slug":"pumpkin-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the crispness in the night air. I love hanging out with neighbors and the fact that when you run into them on the street, one of them might be dressed up as a bloody pumpkin. (That would be the dad, not the kid.) My own costume this year was a mish-mash that included horns, Pippi’s<\/a> friend Mr. Nilsson (whom Pippi got tired of carrying) and Percy Jackson’s<\/a> lightning bolt (because it kept poking our friend Ethan, who was dressed as a bottle of ketchup). Add to that a bag of candy and some roasted pumpkin seeds. Seriously, what’s not to love? <\/p>\n

My favorite candy bar this year is the Snickers bar, probably related to the fact that I still think of it as the unofficial candy bar of journalists. (Didn’t know that journalists had their own candy bar? Then you clearly don’t remember this TV commercial<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This year my husband had thumb surgery right before Halloween, which put him out of the picture for our pumpkin carving. I think I did okay as surrogate, but my son wasn’t leaving anything to chance, as you can see from these blueprints:\"pumpkin<\/a>

\"Final<\/a>

Final product. The dry ice obscures the fangs, but trust me, they're there.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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