
{"id":13474,"date":"2010-10-30T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13474"},"modified":"2010-10-30T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T18:58:48","slug":"boo-to-you-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/10\/30\/boo-to-you-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo to you, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That big, full moon coming up through thin clouds the other night sure was a perfect opportunity for telling ghost stories. Saw it rise as orange as a store-bought Jack-o-lantern over the Atlantic with some low-hanging clouds adding a jagged smile for effect.<\/p>\n<p>I used to scare easy, until finding out that monsters eschew me. Vampires? Too much garlic in the diet. Werewolves? One sniff and they turn tail and run. Zombies? Obviously, if I had any brains I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be in PR.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is on a Sunday this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a perfect opportunity for the town of Chapel Hill, which lately has been trying to keep out-of-towners to a minimum, to warn people away. Right now, the big electric signs in the bypass used during sporting events are being reprogrammed to read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Move Along. Nothing to See Here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t You Have to Work in the Morning?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carrboro is quietly building its own homegrown celebration, with another Fright Night for teens at The ArtsCenter and various other doings about town.<\/p>\n<p>Like it or not, you have to admit, at least we do Halloween with a little more style than most places. I noticed during my recent foray to the coast that people there are planning to dress as either a pirate, a sexy pirate, a shark or a sexy shark. At least around here, walking concepts and anthropomorphic kitchen appliances are mixed in with the standard assortment of heroes, villains and sexy whatevers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a holiday more about imagination than horror \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unless you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to find a place to park. Cue the creepy organ music. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kirk Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is on a Sunday this year \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a perfect opportunity for the town of Chapel Hill, which lately has been trying to keep out-of-towners to a minimum, to warn people away. Right now, the big electric signs in the bypass used during sporting events are being reprogrammed to read: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Move Along. Nothing to See Here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t You Have to Work in the Morning?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13476,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions\/13476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}