{"id":104,"date":"2009-11-12T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:32:07","slug":"happy-merry-hallowmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/happy-merry-hallowmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Merry Hallowmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103\" title=\"hallowmas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/hallowmas.jpg\" alt=\"hallowmas\" width=\"438\" height=\"450\" \/><em>What has happened in the retail world?!<\/em> Am I the only one that&#8217;s noticed that there is absolutely no buffer left between Halloween and Christmas? Think of the money retailers could make if they just blended the two together into Hallowmas. Staff wouldn&#8217;t be burdened with changing out Halloween merchandise for Christmas merchandise \u2013 the stuff could be displayed right after &#8220;Back to School&#8221; season in September and sit on the shelves right into January. Kids could purchase their Santa-lanterns in early October to collect candy (say good-bye to the black and orange packaged peanut butter taffy, we&#8217;re talking peppermint discs now) and buy their black Hallowmas Stockings complete with embroidered creatures. I never remember this amped-up hype for material decor when I was a kid. Obviously retailers are really after your hard-earned dollars. It&#8217;s funny they&#8217;ve never been able to capitalize on that other holiday that falls between them&#8230; oh, what is it? Oh yeah! <strong>Thanksgiving!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has happened in the retail world?! Am I the only one that&#8217;s noticed that there is absolutely no buffer left between Halloween and Christmas? Think of the money retailers could make if they just blended the two together into Hallowmas. Staff wouldn&#8217;t be burdened with changing out Halloween merchandise for Christmas merchandise \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}