{"id":1253,"date":"2008-10-31T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agaveweb.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2008-10-31T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T03:15:04","slug":"halloween-in-pdx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/halloween-in-pdx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallowe&#8217;en in PDX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 8pm, I rarely post in the evening, but I&#8217;m hiding out in the basement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I had the foresight to nip to the supermarket and stock up on skittles, kitkats and starburst (coincidentally, all the sweets I like) a few hours ago&#8230; Boba Fett Jr, some Princess or other and Batman are among many others that have been round our house this evening. Atticus was initially apoplectic that so many strangers were wandering the streets after dark and daring to approach the threshold of his realm. He seems more resigned now. I know the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>DrSita&#8217;s in Denver at the minute. I&#8217;m picking her up from the airport at midnight tonight. I just texted her to say I can&#8217;t get the hang of this gringo tradition thing. By the third visit, I realised I was doing it wrong and you don&#8217;t say &#8220;Good luck&#8221; to a five-year-old. You say &#8220;Happy Halloween&#8221; (no apostrophe, &#8216;cos we&#8217;re in America). And the stress is on the &#8216;a&#8217;&#8230; &#8220;H\u00e1lloween&#8221;, not &#8220;Hallow\u00e9en&#8221; (UK)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyroad, have a collage of some of my latest Through the Viewfinder shots of some skellingtons from Mexico. And if you&#8217;re feeling particularly masochistic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/g_w_y_n\/tags\/peterkerrpark\/\">wade through my latest pix of a walk round Peter Kerr Park<\/a> down the road. I spent a while thinking up some decent puns for some of the titles.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Serenata de los muertos by Guanatos Gwyn, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/g_w_y_n\/2989396643\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pero el d\u00eda que yo me muera, s\u00e9 que tendr\u00e1s que llorar\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3156\/2989396643_8b72304a44.jpg\" alt=\"Serenata de los muertos\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pero el d\u00eda que yo me muera, s\u00e9 que tendr\u00e1s que llorar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 8pm, I rarely post in the evening, but I&#8217;m hiding out in the basement&#8230; Luckily I had the foresight to nip to the supermarket and stock up on skittles, kitkats and starburst (coincidentally, all the sweets I like) a few hours ago&#8230; Boba Fett Jr, some Princess or other and Batman are among many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hallowe&#039;en in PDX - Gwyn&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s 8pm, I rarely post in the evening, but I&#039;m hiding out in the basement... 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