{"id":41851,"date":"2023-10-31T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=41851"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:56:04","slug":"halloween-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/halloween-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween \u2022 Dark Night of the Scarecrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"41852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/halloween-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow\/scarecrowweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Scarecrowweb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Being that we have run out of coin-operated machine costumes to stuff our son into, we have decided to lean into something more in the creepy and supernatural spirit of the holiday. This year, Lloyd is a scarecrow which Joe and I put together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned! We will be back with more photos!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being that we have run out of coin-operated machine costumes to stuff our son into, we have decided to lean into something more in the creepy and supernatural spirit of the holiday. This year, Lloyd is a scarecrow which Joe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/halloween-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,176],"tags":[5543,497,3674,3668,1537,23,3669,5742],"class_list":["post-41851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween","category-holiday","tag-5543","tag-creepy","tag-diy","tag-halloween","tag-homemade","tag-monster","tag-philadelphia","tag-scarecrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Scarecrowweb.jpg?fit=500%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aT1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41871,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/31\/the-scarecrow-of-south-philadelphia\/","url_meta":{"origin":41851,"position":0},"title":"The Scarecrow of South Philadelphia","author":"Joe","date":"October 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some more photos of our son as a sinister scarecrow. 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