{"id":8554,"date":"2016-10-30T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2016-10-30T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T20:35:35","slug":"halloween-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/halloween-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PacMan.jpg\" alt=\"pacman\" width=\"850\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PacMan.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PacMan-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PacMan-768x678.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/PacMan-500x441.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider yourself lucky if you were able to go trick-or-treating without the threat of getting your candy stolen by older kids.<\/strong>\u00a0I think it started out\u00a0mostly as an urban myth, but the thought of it\u00a0happening\u00a0made Halloween\u00a0night a little\u00a0more frightening. I remember the year my\u00a0friend&#8217;s candy bag became\u00a0the\u00a0bullies&#8217; prize. After running\u00a0home, the rest of us were asked to &#8216;share&#8217; our cornucopia of candy with our less\u00a0fortunate friend.\u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s why we always felt so compelled to eat as much of our candy as we could in one night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider yourself lucky if you were able to go trick-or-treating without the threat of getting your candy stolen by older kids.\u00a0I think it started out\u00a0mostly as an urban myth, but the thought of it\u00a0happening\u00a0made Halloween\u00a0night a little\u00a0more frightening. I remember the year my\u00a0friend&#8217;s candy bag became\u00a0the\u00a0bullies&#8217; prize. After running\u00a0home, the rest of us were asked [&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":[34,57,62],"tags":[671,502],"class_list":["post-8554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-inktober","category-memories","tag-pacman","tag-trick-or-treat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-2dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554","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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8557,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}