{"id":249,"date":"2009-11-03T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-11-03T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T02:07:22","slug":"october-cluster-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2009\/11\/03\/october-cluster-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"October Cluster Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/P1010491.JPG\" alt=\"Carved Pumpkins and the Green Squash\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carved Pumpkins and the Green Squash<\/p><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2009\/11\/P10104921.JPG\" alt=\"October Cluster Meeting\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd>October Cluster Meeting<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week the Au Pairs arrived at the cluster meeting dressed for Halloween and ready to carve pumpkins.\u00a0 Many said they had never carved a pumpkin before.\u00a0 One Au Pair brought a green squash with to carve instead of a pumpkin and she managed to carve the squash!\u00a0 Others were creative carving cats, bats and scary faces into their pumpkins.\u00a0 Some brought candles with and when they were finished carving, they turned with lights out in the room and lit up their candles inside the pumpkins.\u00a0 Of course, they all took lots of pictures and posed for pictures as well.\u00a0 They said they had a great time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October Cluster Meeting Last week the Au Pairs arrived at the cluster meeting dressed for Halloween and ready to carve pumpkins.\u00a0 Many said they had never carved a pumpkin before.\u00a0 One Au Pair brought a green squash with to carve instead of a pumpkin and she managed to carve the squash!\u00a0 Others were creative carving  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2009\/11\/03\/october-cluster-meeting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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