{"id":4375,"date":"2010-10-31T23:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2010-11-01T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T13:19:54","slug":"halloween-in-hightstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4375","title":{"rendered":"Halloween in Hightstown, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4377\" title=\"Halloween1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mom and I were wondering where all of the neighborhood kids were.\u00a0 Why wasn&#8217;t anyone coming around for halloween candy.\u00a0 Then Rich called and said, &#8220;Get over to Stockton Street and see what&#8217;s going on at your favorite Victorian house.\u00a0 It is wild.&#8221;\u00a0 So, mom and I went over.\u00a0 We immediately saw the haze of smoke, glow of lights, and a mass of people everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4381\" title=\"Halloween2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\nAnd there were all of the trick-or-treaters!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4384\" title=\"Halloween3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The place was done up with a Merlin theme &#8212; complete with singing, dancing, a king, his lady, Merlin, a sword, smoke, lights, a movie being projected, and more.\u00a0\u00a0 Several people wearing lavish costumes were handing out candy by the boatload.\u00a0\u00a0 The king was handing out gold wrapped chocolate coins from his challis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4383\" title=\"Halloween4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween4.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4382\" title=\"Halloween5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween5.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween5-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4389\" title=\"Halloween9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween9.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween9-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4380\" title=\"Halloween6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween6.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween6-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4379\" title=\"Halloween7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween7.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><br \/>\nAnd, no kidding, at one point Merlin was on the first story story roof dancing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4378\" title=\"Halloween8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween8.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Halloween8-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FB4F5hpChzo?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FB4F5hpChzo?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I did take a quick video because these pictures do not give the full excitement of what was going on. It&#8217;s not the best quality,\u00a0 it abruptly stops, and I didn&#8217;t want to tinker around with it (lazy) &#8212; but it&#8217;s fun and gives a better sense of the drama.<\/p>\n<p>While I want to get my Visions pictures up, I had to get these Halloween shots up first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom and I were wondering where all of the neighborhood kids were.\u00a0 Why wasn&#8217;t anyone coming around for halloween candy.\u00a0 Then Rich called and said, &#8220;Get over to Stockton Street and see what&#8217;s going on at your favorite Victorian house.\u00a0 It is wild.&#8221;\u00a0 So, mom and I went over.\u00a0 We immediately saw the haze of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4396,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}