By Chamberlain Zulauf<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have to say, I\u2019m team Halloween. Good ol\u2019 winter holidays are nice and all, but spooky season is King. Christmas movies are always going on about the <\/span>meaning<\/span><\/i> of the holiday. Spooktober has just as much <\/span>meaning<\/span><\/i> and is a lot more fun.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s take movies for example: name a sad Halloween movie. Exactly. It seems like every Christmas movie is sad somehow. It\u2019s a holiday- I don\u2019t want to be sad! Pint one Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Halloween movies have a lot more range than Christmas movies too. If you\u2019re a hardcore gore head, there are horror movies of course. I like to watch lighthearted movies, to be honest, but horror movies are fun. I\u2019m talking <\/span>Hocus Pocus<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Beetlejuice<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Mostly Ghostly<\/span><\/i> even. Of course, we\u2019ll all always have <\/span>The Nightmare before Christmas<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Halloween may be morbid but it\u2019s not sad. It\u2019s the last bit of being silly before the winter slump comes. Things like fake bones in the yard and scary stories are a way for us to desensitize ourselves to the impending bitter dormancy of November-February. *Ahem*<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Spooky season serves to gently usher us all into the later months of the year which is a time when morale needs to be rallied. People can be so creative when it comes to Halloween traditions and use that as an outlet. Don\u2019t even get me started on pumpkin carving!<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0October 2021 is almost over, and it has been quite a spooky time indeed. See you in the Christmas issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Chamberlain Zulauf \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have to say, I\u2019m team Halloween. Good ol\u2019 winter holidays are nice and all, but spooky season is King. Christmas movies are always going on about the meaning of the holiday. Spooktober has just as much meaning and is a lot more fun. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s take movies for example: name a sad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Spooky-Season.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}