{"id":5638,"date":"2005-10-23T07:12:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T07:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2005-10-23T07:12:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T07:12:27","slug":"grow-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"GROW SOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the reasons folks cite to oppose Halloween (and I don&#8217;t oppose it for a minute), this one is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/today\/lifestyle\/stories\/li102305s198904.shtml\">lamest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While today&#8217;s Star Wars and Oompa Loompa costumes may not directly reflect ancient Celtic lore, for Jason Eric, a Harpursville father of five, it is still a negative holiday his family chooses to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>His reasons extend beyond his Christian beliefs. &#8220;In the post 9\/11 world, and with more and more stories of children being abducted, do you think it is all worth it? One night of fun to risk your child&#8217;s well-being &#8230; it seems mischievousness tends to occur more on this particular night,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know I would not be able to live with myself if something happened to my child because I was not able to say no.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess 9\/11 really <i>did<\/i> change everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the reasons folks cite to oppose Halloween (and I don&#8217;t oppose it for a minute), this one is the lamest: While today&#8217;s Star Wars and Oompa Loompa costumes may not directly reflect ancient Celtic lore, for Jason Eric, a Harpursville father of five, it is still a negative holiday his family chooses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}