{"id":237,"date":"2007-10-28T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/10\/28\/halloween"},"modified":"2017-08-11T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T00:02:50","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/10\/28\/halloween","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Is Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Candy and costumes. Good fun!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you get these religious losers who scream and cry that Halloween is evil and is a Satanic celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah? So let me get this straight. Halloween is about pretending to be scary monsters such as ghosts, witches, or Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Not being scared of these monsters that want to rip out your soul and eat it. Not trembling in fear of these demons that want you to lie, cheat, steal, and shop at Wal-Mart. To put on costumes pretending to be them and eats lots of candy. This is a recipe for having a good time.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, the epitome of making fun of all that is evil, trivializing it, doing the exact opposite of falling prey to it, somehow constitutes a Satanic celebration?<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe I just don&#8217;t understand these things as well as they do then. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;d tell me at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s awesome. Candy and costumes. Good fun! Of course, you get these religious losers who scream and cry that Halloween is evil and is a Satanic celebration. Oh, yeah? So let me get this straight. Halloween is about pretending to be scary monsters such as ghosts, witches, or Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Not being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/10\/28\/halloween\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halloween Is Evil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-occasional-godliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}