{"id":68,"date":"2002-10-31T21:15:35","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T21:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2002-10-31T21:15:35","modified_gmt":"2002-10-31T21:15:35","slug":"life_in_a_small_town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/life_in_a_small_town\/","title":{"rendered":"life in a small town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, as I&#8217;m sure several of you know by now, today was my birthday :biggrin<br \/>\nIt was celebrated in my usual fashion,I dressed up (see pics below) and not in the same costume I had the last 3 years :wink, took the kids trick-or-treating, and getting to see all kinds of cute kiddos coming to my door yelling, &#8220;trick-or-treat!&#8221;<br \/>\nI live in a small town, a lot of people around here feel safe taking kids door to door, this to me is the best part of Halloween&#8230;when I was a kid (and for the record I&#8217;m 33 today) this was a <B>requirement! <\/B> every year driving around town and hitting the best houses, remembering to say &#8216;trick or treat&#8217; and you better NOT forget to say &#8216;thank you&#8217; afterwards, Mom or Dad standing at the end of the drive or by the porch while we went house to house. I lived in several places as a child and it was the same in a small town or big city.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lived in both since I&#8217;ve been out on my own, the thing that really sucks is this is the first town I&#8217;ve lived in that I&#8217;ve seen the things that were familiar to me as a child.<br \/>\nI long for a time where my children can do this even if they don&#8217;t live here, where my grandkids (a very longggggg time from now!) can do this without fear. Perhaps I&#8217;m thinking simplistically or simply waxing nostalgic but I can&#8217;t help but feel this way every year at this time.<br \/>\nIt would be the best birthday present I could ever have&#8230;<br \/>\nok, I&#8217;ll shut up now and post the dang pics! *L*<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test.html','popup','width=184,height=238,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">View image<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test1.html','popup','width=230,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">View image<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/archives\/test2.html','popup','width=281,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">View image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, as I&#8217;m sure several of you know by now, today was my birthday :biggrin It was celebrated in my usual fashion,I dressed up (see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}