{"id":277,"date":"2007-10-31T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T02:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2007-10-31T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:04:38","slug":"magenta-is-the-color-of-my-true-loves-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Magenta is the Color of My True Love&#8217;s Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spookiest thing about Halloween in this part of Manhattan isn&#8217;t the parade, which you can&#8217;t even see for the crowds, but the crowds lined up to see the parade before it starts.  Spooky.  Quiet.  Weird.  Dusk; people lined up behind barricades along the Avenue; horns honking as traffic starts to jam up &#8211; but nothing actually happening.  A strange hush muffles even the honking and the murmuring.<\/p>\n<p>Later on things are just amusing.  Here&#8217;s a Harlequin and his Skeleton Dad enjoying a Big Salty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/1811535668\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2284\/1811535668_e597a66b82.jpg\" width=\"457\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Harlequin and Dad with Pretzel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>Here&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s dog, with a matching Skeleton costume.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/1811553244\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2178\/1811553244_29b98d30c3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" alt=\"dog_skeleton_closeup\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile over on Fifth Ave., Prince Elvis Travolta struck a pose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/1811535652\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2403\/1811535652_8758ade997.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Elvis?\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Then I came home and we watched <i><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CYLJ\/officialhalleyde\" target=\"_blank\">The Others<\/a>.<\/i>  Now that&#8217;s Halloween-scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spookiest thing about Halloween in this part of Manhattan isn&#8217;t the parade, which you can&#8217;t even see for the crowds, but the crowds lined up to see the parade before it starts. Spooky. Quiet. Weird. Dusk; people lined up behind barricades along the Avenue; horns honking as traffic starts to jam up &#8211; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magenta is the Color of My True Love&#8217;s Hair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}