{"id":648,"date":"2018-11-01T08:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/?p=648"},"modified":"2018-11-01T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:34:38","slug":"an-eerie-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/an-eerie-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eerie Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strangest Fall I\u2019ve ever seen. Halloween has already happened and still so much green in the grass and flora and fauna. Even many of the falling leaves are green. We\u2019re just getting into Fall colors. After some ups and downs, temperatures are just now near normal, around 40 degrees and freezing at night. We say, \u201cThe frost is on the pumpkins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the tropical and save-over annual flowers from my garden are now warm and cozy and going to sleep in the greenhouse. One lone, pink phlox has been vigilantly blooming out there for the past several weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5563-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5563-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5563-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy decorating for Halloween, sharing Fall dinners, and a trip to Busy Barns with the children to play with all the goats and kittens, roll in the shucked corn \u2018sandbox\u2019, get lost in the corn maze, and chuck pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p>As for my writing, I\u2019m a fiction writer, who makes up stories and characters. But now I\u2019m working on a coming-of-age story of a young girl on a tobacco farm. In addition to creating my main character, I have to follow the seasons of the tobacco growing and harvest, follow the age of the child on the farm, and remain in the years 1940-50. I\u2019m learning to write whole new genres of biography, history and farming.\u00a0 A challenge for sure, but fun.<\/p>\n<p>Have\u00a0 you, too, had the experience of expanding your writer-mind? \u00a0Click on CONTACT above and send me a note to the e-mail listed. I can post your comments out here so others can see.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I no longer allow direct contact to this site as I received copious, intrusive pages of advertising.<\/p>\n<p>And, be sure add your e-mail to SUBSCRIBE TO BLOG in the upper right hand corner of this page to register for a free copy of my novel\u2014 IS IT SAFE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangest Fall I\u2019ve ever seen. Halloween has already happened and still so much green in the grass and flora and fauna. Even many of the falling leaves are green. We\u2019re just getting into Fall colors. After some ups and downs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/an-eerie-halloween\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerolanderson.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}