{"id":4875,"date":"2009-10-01T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:59:12","slug":"not-too-spooky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/10\/01\/not-too-spooky\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Too Spooky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is a fun time of year, but for very little kids I think avoiding realistic ghoulishness is a good idea. They aren&#8217;t capable of discerning between real and pretend. So this year we&#8217;ll focus on construction paper pumpkins, bats, and maybe a few ghosts. I drew and cut out the bats, and Bean squirted glue and smeared it and then sprinkled glitter. I like how they curled up as they dried; the look more three-dimensional and interesting to me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3972889236\/\" title=\"bat up close by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2633\/3972889236_e11cda09c8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"bat up close\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3972888772\/\" title=\"halloween bats by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2496\/3972888772_ea176744a3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"halloween bats\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is a fun time of year, but for very little kids I think avoiding realistic ghoulishness is a good idea. They aren&#8217;t capable of discerning between real and pretend. So this year we&#8217;ll focus on construction paper pumpkins, bats, and maybe a few ghosts. I drew and cut out the bats, and Bean squirted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13674,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/13674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}