{"id":31345,"date":"2024-10-21T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=31345"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:40:53","slug":"new-way-to-carve-your-pumpkin-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/10\/new-way-to-carve-your-pumpkin-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Way To Carve Your Pumpkin This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying not to be sad about it, but I am.\u00a0 This Halloween will be the first that we have no kids at home.\u00a0 No costumes.\u00a0 No trick or treating.\u00a0 No jack-0-lanterns.\u00a0 Or so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>With no kids at home I&#8217;ve been trying to find the motivation to even decorate the house &#8211; which is something I have always loved doing.\u00a0 This whole adjusting to empty nesting thing has proven more challenging than I realized even if we aren&#8217;t fully empty nesters yet.<\/p>\n<p>Our oldest daughter decided that before she goes away this year, we would pick up pumpkins for Halloween.\u00a0 Checked that off the list yesterday and now we have two pumpkins sitting on the steps, waiting to be turned into something scary.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Woodley mentioned this idea to me this morning.\u00a0 Get the squirrels to carve your pumpkins.\u00a0 She is going to try it and she suggested I Google it and see what it&#8217;s all about.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is sure interesting and I for sure want to try this.\u00a0 With 10 tens til Halloween that gives the squirrels in my &#8220;hood&#8221; time to create a super spooky, scary pumpkin face just in time for the holiday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDSMwnzGvc4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was trying not to be sad about it, but I am.\u00a0 This Halloween will be the first that we have no kids at home.\u00a0 No costumes.\u00a0 No trick or treating.\u00a0 No jack-0-lanterns.\u00a0 Or so I thought. With no kids at home I&#8217;ve been trying to find the motivation to even decorate the house &#8211;","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3535,3537,3534,6153],"class_list":["post-31345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-carving","tag-jack-o-lantern","tag-pumpkin","tag-squirrel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 22:03:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/10\/new-way-to-carve-your-pumpkin-this-year\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31346,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31345\/revisions\/31346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}