{"id":18102,"date":"2023-10-31T23:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18102"},"modified":"2023-11-06T23:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T22:13:58","slug":"daily_3181_-_a_dark_and_stormy_night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/daily_3181_-_a_dark_and_stormy_night\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3181 &#8211; a dark and stormy night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3181_Halloween.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nToday was so wet and windy that I couldn&#8217;t even put our jack-o-lantern outside. I even lit the candle and put the carved pumpkin over it indoors, but the moment I tried to take it to the porch, the wind blew the candle out. So here it is, looking down at things from a hall window.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting many trick-or-treaters at all. Partly because of the weather, but also because they&#8217;ve been fewer in recent years. Families going away for autumn break, perhaps. Still, Ingrid bought some candy just in case, enough for the ten or so kids I expected.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, we got over twenty trick-or-treaters. I ran out of Halloween candy, and dug through our cupboards for any kind of sweets that kids might eat (except Adrian&#8217;s Aladdin pralines). There&#8217;s no point in offering them dark chocolate, or candied ginger&#8230; They got my Skotte hiking snacks, and our Valrhona white chocolate buttons, and some leftover <i>dammsugare<\/i>. The last ones walked away with very measly handouts. Had there been any more of them, I&#8217;d have been forced to give them biscuits or baking chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was so wet and windy that I couldn&#8217;t even put our jack-o-lantern outside. I even lit the candle and put the carved pumpkin over it indoors, but the moment I tried to take it to the porch, the wind blew the candle out. So here it is, looking down at things from a hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18103,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18102\/revisions\/18103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}