{"id":6250,"date":"2013-11-26T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:16:10","slug":"scared-the-children-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2013\/11\/26\/scared-the-children-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a belated recap of the annual Halloween extravaganza (see also: <a href=\"\/journal\/2012\/11\/25\/scared-the-children-2\/\">2012<\/a>, <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/11\/07\/scared-the-children\/\">2005<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year&#8217;s big addition was a well with images of a ghost projected into it &#8211; imagine the freaky angels at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, but flying up from a well.  Too many people walked by not realizing what was inside, but for those who looked it was pretty creepy.<\/li>\n<li>Audrey added a new set of teeth to her costume.  &#8220;They&#8217;re really horrific&#8221; was her enthusiastic endorsement after trying them on for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>I again got the best job in the world as I was dressed in all black and stationed inside of our blacked-out entryway, with my sole responsibility being to be invisible, wait until someone got close, and then growl.  At the end of the night we found a pile of candy next to where I was stationed &#8211; I apparently literally scared the candy out of a few people.<\/li>\n<li>The proof that our efforts were worth it came early in the evening when a kid stood in our driveway for a good thirty seconds loudly repeating &#8220;it&#8217;s not worth the candy&#8230; it&#8217;s not worth the candy&#8221;.  He didn&#8217;t make it to the door, but gets the honor of being a part of Scare the Children lore for years to come.<\/li>\n<li>Others who participated in the scaring this year included a guy dressed as a clown with an axe (&#8220;that&#8217;s really disturbing&#8221; was the initial assessment), Audrey&#8217;s current boss who made a surprise appearance and was later found hovering in a tree over the sidewalk, her friend Monty who stood completely still, looking fake, and got a few screams when he reached out at folks walking by, longtime participants Gina and Shelly, Meghen in the coffin, an executioner who didn&#8217;t take kindly to the many kids who mistook him for a ninja, and Audrey&#8217;s friend Stephanie doing logistics.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, in what may not have been the best move for building relations with the neighbors, our across-the-street neighbor came by and chatted with Stephanie at the door for three minutes before asking &#8220;where&#8217;s Ryan&#8221;.  Unseen and six inches behind her, I whispered &#8220;Boo&#8221;.  She immediately retreated back across the street, and word has it that &#8220;Ryan&#8217;s dead&#8221;.<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t &#8220;liked&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scarethechildrenLA\">Scare the Children Facebook page<\/a> then you should do so to ensure you don&#8217;t miss out on important future scaring updates.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/1199-culver-city-audrey-scary.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Scare the Children 2013\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">That&#8217;s my girl.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a belated recap of the annual Halloween extravaganza (see also: 2012, 2005): This year&#8217;s big addition was a well with images of a ghost projected into it &#8211; imagine the freaky angels at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, but flying up from a well. Too many people walked by not realizing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2013\/11\/26\/scared-the-children-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scared the Children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,29],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-halloween","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}