{"id":146,"date":"2004-10-16T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-10-16T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T15:38:53","slug":"halloween-sunday-bible-thumpers-in-an-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Halloween + Sunday = Bible-Thumpers in an uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this year, Halloween falls on a  Sunday.  And this has the panties of all the bible-thumpers in the crazier parts of America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/10\/15\/halloween.sabbath.ap\/index.html\">in an uproar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a day for the good Lord, not for the devil,&#8221; said Barbara Braswell, who plans to send her 4-year-old granddaughter Maliyah out trick-or-treating in a princess costume on Saturday instead.<\/p>\n<p>Some towns around the country are decreeing that Halloween be celebrated on Saturday to avoid complaints from those who might be offended by the sight of demons and witches ringing their doorbell on the Sabbath. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I guess every other day is just fine to dress your kid up in satan&#8217;s garb, but <em><strong>not Sunday, <\/strong><\/em> oh, no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bible belt people are freaking out over a sunday Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}