{"id":22387,"date":"2013-10-31T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=22387"},"modified":"2013-10-31T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:13:07","slug":"last-minute-halloween-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/last-minute-halloween-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute Halloween Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last month has been barmy. I&#8217;ve been to Seattle, San Francisco, Palm Beach, as well as a Cursillo retreat. Life has been far to busy, to put it mildly. As such, I&#8217;ve kinda dropped the ball on Halloween&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Several of my friends have been sharing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxmom.com\/2013\/10\/31\/why-we-dont-celebrate-halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why we don&#8217;t celebrate Halloween<\/a> posts on Facebook. I had planned to write a blog post explaining why I celebrate Halloween, but all I&#8217;ve managed to do is post a <a href=\"http:\/\/adoptingjames.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/23\/why-we-dont-celebrate-halloween\/#comment-5684\" target=\"_blank\">couple of comments on one such blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than let this holiday pass unmentioned, I thought I would provide a few links to a few websites which offer the other side of the debate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.com\/blog\/jon-sorensen\/halloween-or-samhain\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"CA Blog\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CA-Blog-1024x723.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d prefer an MP3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.com\/radio\/shows\/a-catholic-approach-to-halloween-7625\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"CA Podcast\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CA-Podcast-1024x737.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, a massive collection of articles over at <a href=\"http:\/\/phatcatholic.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phat Catholic Apologetics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phatcatholic.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/halloween-and-all-saintssouls-day.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22388 aligncenter\" alt=\"Phat\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Phat-1024x746.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Happy All Hallow&#8217;s Eve everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last month has been barmy. I&#8217;ve been to Seattle, San Francisco, Palm Beach, as well as a Cursillo retreat. Life has been far to busy, to put it mildly. As such, I&#8217;ve kinda dropped the ball on Halloween&#8230; Several of my friends have been sharing\u00a0Why we don&#8217;t celebrate Halloween posts on Facebook. I had planned to write a blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-22387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22399,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22387\/revisions\/22399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}