{"id":153,"date":"2010-10-31T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T00:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2011-10-19T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T07:58:54","slug":"i-dont-do-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/i-dont-do-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t do Hallowe&#8217;en"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I avoid commercialised &#8216;celebrations&#8217; &#8211; Hallowe&#8217;en, Christmas, Easter. I stick to the midsummer and midwinter solstices. Twice a year is holy enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Fawkes night on 5th November, now, that&#8217;s a different story. I like to remember that we&#8217;re celebrating insurrection, rather than the torture and execution of Catholics, as I watch the sky explode with fire flowers from the safety of my armchair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/azriadnan\/1855533075\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fireworks_dw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fireworks_dw\" width=\"500\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fireworks_dw.jpg 500w, https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fireworks_dw-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I avoid commercialised &#8216;celebrations&#8217; &#8211; Hallowe&#8217;en, Christmas, Easter. I stick to the midsummer and midwinter solstices. Twice a year is holy enough for me. Guy Fawkes night on 5th November, now, that&#8217;s a different story. I like to remember that we&#8217;re celebrating insurrection, rather than the torture and execution of Catholics, as I watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}