{"id":4454,"date":"2010-11-01T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2010-11-01T00:40:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:40:50","slug":"halloween-post-game-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/01\/halloween-post-game-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Post-Game Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Halloween at our house went pretty well!\u00a0 The kids had a great time trick-or-treating with my wife while I stayed home and handed out goodies.\u00a0 In addition to candy, we handed out free comic books.\u00a0 The comics were a big hit with the neighborhood kids and their parents (<a title=\"Comics for Halloween\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2010\/10\/13\/this-halloween-give-comics-to-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here for more information on the Halloween comics<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img 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My kids and I hit three different shops to see what each store was doing.\u00a0 One shop featured face painting and a woman dressed as Wonder Woman.\u00a0 Another store offered face painting and extra free comics to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Rambunctious Rascal and Star Wars characters - Free Comic Book Day 2010 at Cosmic Cat","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/fcbd10.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1025,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/26\/kids-read-comics-june-12-13-in-chelsea-michigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":4454,"position":2},"title":"Kids Read Comics! June 12-13 in Chelsea, Michigan","date":"May 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Kids Read Comics! A very true statement, however, not as many kids are reading comics today as were when we grew up.\u00a0 Ask yourself, do you encourage kids in your life (your children, nephews, nieces, friend's kids, neighbors, etc) to read comics?\u00a0 If the answer is no, then you may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4439,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/29\/happy-halloween-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4454,"position":3},"title":"Have a Happy and Geeky Halloween!","date":"October 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Have a Happy and Geeky Halloween!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Spider-Man pumpkin","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/pumpkin_spidey.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4091,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/30\/who-you-gonna-call-this-halloween-my-buddy-robby\/","url_meta":{"origin":4454,"position":4},"title":"Who You Gonna Call this Halloween? 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All of these costumes appeared at DragonCon 2010.\u00a0 Some of these are incredibly elaborate, while others are fairly simple and could be made by you at home with a little time and effort.\u00a0 There were hundreds (if not thousands) of different costumes at DragonCon.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Wonder Girl at DragonCon 2010","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4975355725_f31c775a97_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}