{"id":8252,"date":"2014-11-30T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:33:08","slug":"catching-up-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/11\/30\/catching-up-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Audrey&#8217;s stipulations when we were planning the <a href=\"\/journal\/tag\/2014-world-tour\/\">2014 World Tour<\/a> was that we had to be back in time for Halloween and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scarethechildrenLA\">Scare the Children<\/a> &#8211; the annual yard haunt is a big deal for her.  This was my fourth child-scaring extravaganza (see also: <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/11\/07\/scared-the-children\/\">2005<\/a>, <a href=\"\/journal\/2012\/11\/25\/scared-the-children-2\/\">2012<\/a>, <a href=\"\/journal\/2013\/11\/26\/scared-the-children-3\/\">2013<\/a>) and the best one yet.  Some highlights of this year&#8217;s event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I once again was tapped to play the invisible man, but a change in lighting meant that it wasn&#8217;t dark enough for me to hide in the entryway without being seen.  As a result I took up candy-dispensing duties, sitting completely motionless in the entryway until someone reached into the bucket to take a piece of candy.  There were more than a few &#8220;is he real&#8221; comments, followed by more than a few yells when the answer was determined.<\/li>\n<li>Our newest addition this year was Brett, fully mic&#8217;d with sound processors, up in a tree.  He managed the right mix of funny and creepy to keep things lively.  We got everything from &#8220;Beware of the man in the clown suit!  Or is it a clown in a man suit, with an even smaller man buried deep inside?&#8221; to &#8220;Go to the door and get some candy &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing to be afraid of&#8230; except for all of the things along the way that you should be afraid of.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The stars of the show were again the most frightened kids.  A significant number of trick-or-treaters made it past the garage, but when faced with the prospect of walking up the darkened entryway to a black figure in a chair, paused, repeatedly said &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to do it!&#8221;, and then moved on to the next house.<\/li>\n<li>Audrey&#8217;s friend Jocelyn joined the party this year and was given &#8220;girl in the coffin&#8221; duty, a task made all the more difficult by the fact that it&#8217;s tough to act creepy when you&#8217;re doubled over in laughter because the guy with the microphone in the tree is such a fun weirdo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.636891766423684.1073741828.291134904332707&#038;type=1\">Scare the Children Facebook page<\/a> for more photos.  We&#8217;ll be back at it again for Halloween 2015.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/2013-culver-city-scare-the-children-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Scare the Children 2014\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"img-main\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">The coffin-lady, the scary (yet understanding) clown, a yard walker, and, far in the background, a soon-to-be-scared child.  It was another good year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Audrey&#8217;s stipulations when we were planning the 2014 World Tour was that we had to be back in time for Halloween and Scare the Children &#8211; the annual yard haunt is a big deal for her. This was my fourth child-scaring extravaganza (see also: 2005, 2012, 2013) and the best one yet. Some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/11\/30\/catching-up-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching Up, Part 2&#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-8252","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\/8252","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=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8271,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}