{"id":3042,"date":"2012-11-02T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2012-11-02T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T01:05:03","slug":"hurricanes-and-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/3042\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes and Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I *always* got excited about hurricanes.  The power will be off!  We&#8217;ll play creatively!  We&#8217;ll listen to the rain the and wind!  I&#8217;ve never been on the catastrophic end of the hurricanes, so I have always had fun with them.  I realize that for many people the effects are devastating and I grieve for their loss. <\/p>\n<p>Here in MA we lost power for 4 hours, which was ideal.  There were no technology distractions to distract us as a family.  We had such quality time together!  Candlelight dinner&#8230;.fort making&#8230;.lincoln log houses&#8230;.and playing outside in the rain!  It was one of the best days for my happy heart.  \ud83d\ude42   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5367.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5367-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5367\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5361-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5361\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just before the hurricane arrived, Alice had fun at her first &#8220;papade&#8221;, the Woburn Parade!  We had a fun trip with family. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5341.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5341-1024x768.jpg\"  width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, while some towns postponed Halloween, the Holt family headed out!  Ninja, pumpkin, drumming butterfly, oh my!  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5381-300x218.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5370-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>On the topic of Halloween, I thought this was a great blog write up on this holiday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourfamilyforhisglory.com\/2012\/10\/what-to-do-about-halloween\/\">on this blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I *always* got excited about hurricanes. The power will be off! We&#8217;ll play creatively! We&#8217;ll listen to the rain the and wind! I&#8217;ve never been on the catastrophic end of the hurricanes, so I have always had fun with them. I realize that for many people the effects are devastating and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}