{"id":6988,"date":"2013-10-30T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T12:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2022-10-30T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T16:42:32","slug":"halloween-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/halloween-2\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hallows’ Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Scene: Hallowe’en, a\u00a0Scottish term\u00a0which is a contraction\u00a0of All Hallows’ Eve, from about 1745.\u00a0A\u00a0Christianized feast influenced by the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain.\u00a0Folklorists have also detected its origins in the Roman\u00a0feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia.<\/p>\n

Dressing up in costumes and going “guising” was prevalent in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween by the late 19th century.\u00a0The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or treating\u00a0was becoming popular in the United States. In 1962, Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s song Monster Mash<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>released. The scene\u00a0<\/em>was rockin’,
\n<\/em>it was a graveyard smash! Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scene: Hallowe’en, a\u00a0Scottish term\u00a0which is a contraction\u00a0of All Hallows’ Eve, from about 1745.\u00a0A\u00a0Christianized feast influenced by the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain.\u00a0Folklorists have also detected its origins in the Roman\u00a0feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia. Dressing up in costumes and going “guising” was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,25,95,26,21,11],"tags":[322,327,323,31,326,321,320,32,738,33,22,739,96,325,324],"class_list":["post-6988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-culture","category-holiday","category-music","category-new-york-city","category-underground","tag-all-hallows-eve","tag-bobby-boris-picketts","tag-celtic-harvest-festival-of-samhain","tag-fashion-and-culture-blog","tag-guising","tag-halloween","tag-monster-mash","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-personal-style","tag-street-style","tag-the-festival-of-the-dead-called-parentalia","tag-the-roman-feast-of-pomona"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Jszn-1OI","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6988"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23069,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6988\/revisions\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}