{"id":6779,"date":"2011-10-29T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2011-10-29T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T21:23:40","slug":"spooky-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/spooky-isnt-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky, Isn&#8217;t It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/boo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16 \" title=\"boo\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/boo.jpg\" alt=\"Room with a Boo\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/boo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/boo-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">31A Hunt St., Brockton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is our first house, in Brockton, Massachusetts. We lived there 1986-89. There were two families of Cape Verdeans next door who always invited us to their parties and shared their wonderful food with us. My favorite was something they called <em>pastel<\/em>, a scrumptious fried fish pie that contributed mightily to the destruction of my theretofore trim physique! One Halloween, we cut a jack-o-lantern face in an old window shade and hung it in our upstairs bedroom.  We had a long driveway, but you could see it all the way from the street, and all the kids in the neighborhood loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our first house, in Brockton, Massachusetts. We lived there 1986-89. There were two families of Cape Verdeans next door who always invited us to their parties and shared their wonderful food with us. My favorite was something they called pastel, a scrumptious fried fish pie that contributed mightily &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Spooky, Isn't It? - Politickles","description":"31A Hunt St., Brockton This is our first house, in Brockton, Massachusetts. We lived there 1986-89. There were two families of Cape Verdeans next door who alway"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,14,3],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brockton","tag-cape-verde","tag-duplantier","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}