Some readers may be unaware that, for a few years, I lived in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, a little to the east of Lancaster.<\/p>\n
My first year there, ten years ago now, I was excited. It was Halloween. There were kids on my road. Amish kids.<\/p>\n
Halloween!<\/p>\n
Two years ago, I told the story of that night<\/a>. The night of the Amish Halloween!<\/p>\n And for those dedicated pumpkin patch sitters, waiting tonight for the coming of the Great Pumpkin, may I recommend John Aegard’s short story, “The Great Old Pumpkin<\/a>“?<\/p>\n As for myself, I do not plan upon waiting in a pumpkin patch. The Great Pumpkin would not judge my patch sincere. I know this. Instead, I think I shall watch some Universal Monster movies. Oooh, Frankenstein<\/i> and The Bride of Frankenstein<\/i>. That’s the plan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some readers may be unaware that, for a few years, I lived in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, a little to the east of Lancaster. My first year there, ten years ago now, I was excited. It was Halloween. There were kids on my road. Amish kids. Halloween! Two years ago, I told the story of thatContinue reading “On an Amish Halloween”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[62,4135],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-charlie-brown","tag-halloween","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}