{"id":8008,"date":"2026-10-31T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:49:41","slug":"halloween-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8008","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8048\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8048\" class=\"wp-image-8048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0171-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0171\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halloween<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Halloween is celebrated by trick-or-treaters all over the country<\/strong>. Experts believe the holiday has both Christian and pagan origins. The day before All Saints Day, the event first occurred in Europe and then spread to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children could read<\/strong> <em>Scarry, Scarry Halloween<\/em> by Jan Brett and then visit her website at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janbrett.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.janbrett.com\/index.html<\/a>\u00a0to find some Halloween activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One last Halloween riddle: <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What is a monster&#8217;s favorite play? <\/span>Answer:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Romeo and Ghouliet!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer to yesterday&#8217;s riddle:<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What do witches put on their hair?<\/strong> <\/span><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong>Scare spray!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is celebrated by trick-or-treaters all over the country. Experts believe the holiday has both Christian and pagan origins. The day before All Saints Day, the event first occurred in Europe and then spread to the United States. Children could read Scarry, Scarry Halloween by Jan Brett and then visit her website at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.janbrett.com\/index.html\u00a0to find some <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8008' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3256,3254,3255],"class_list":["post-8008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-all-saints-day","tag-halloween","tag-trick-or-treaters","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30405,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions\/30405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}