{"id":7362,"date":"2014-10-30T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:17:18","slug":"candy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/candy-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FRANKIE-ATM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FRANKIE-ATM-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"FRANKIE ATM\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FRANKIE-ATM-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FRANKIE-ATM-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FRANKIE-ATM.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, upwards of 350 children went trick-or-treating in\u00a0my neighborhood. \u00a0 I&#8217;m new to the neighborhood so naturally, I underestimated the number\u00a0of ghosts and goblins passing through and ran out of candy. \u00a0Plus, I was a bit too generous with the handfuls I passed out. \u00a0 I simply didn&#8217;t buy enough.<\/p>\n<p>This year is different. \u00a0I bought extra\u00a0candy. \u00a0I&#8217;ll try to be just as generous with the amount I give to each kid.<\/p>\n<p>Candy is expensive! For\u00a0what I spent in candy, I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s an alternative I can hand out that would be just as fun to get and maybe\u00a0even a bit more educational. \u00a0Google to the rescue! \u00a0I found <a title=\"Halloween without candy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.100daysofrealfood.com\/2011\/10\/07\/real-food-tips-20-ways-to-do-halloween-without-candy\/\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a> which has some really good ideas! \u00a0Being a cartoonist, I especially liked the idea of giving out fun little activity books, paper, and pencils.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, upwards of 350 children went trick-or-treating in\u00a0my neighborhood. \u00a0 I&#8217;m new to the neighborhood so naturally, I underestimated the number\u00a0of ghosts and goblins passing through and ran out of candy. \u00a0Plus, I was a bit too generous with the handfuls I passed out. \u00a0 I simply didn&#8217;t buy enough. This year is different. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1191],"tags":[1192,171,575,67,684,1226,1225],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-inktober-2014","tag-inktober","tag-books","tag-cartooning","tag-halloween","tag-inking","tag-paper","tag-pencils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}