{"id":1134,"date":"2013-10-04T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/10\/04\/october-in-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2013-10-04T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:24:10","slug":"october-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/fcd\/2013\/10\/04\/october-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"October in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>October 14- Columbus Day<\/span><\/strong><span> \u2013 Today commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the \u201cNew World.\u201d <span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>October 23 \u2013 Game One of the Baseball World Series<\/span><\/strong><span> \u2013 In baseball the World Series is the championship games of Major League Baseball in <a title=\"North America\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">North America<\/span><\/a>, played in <a title=\"October\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">October<\/span><\/a> after the end of the regular season between the pennant winners of the American and<span> <\/span><a title=\"National League\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_League\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">National League<\/span><\/a>s. The Series winner is determined through a <a title=\"Best-of-seven playoff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Best-of-seven_playoff\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">best-of-seven playoff<\/span><\/a>, meaning that the first team to win four games wins the series. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903.<span> <\/span>It is played at the baseball stadiums of the two teams in the series.<span> <\/span>Baseball  is so popular that it is sometimes called the \u201cnational pastime.\u201d The  word \u201cballgame\u201d in the United States almost always refers to a game of  baseball, and \u201cballpark\u201d to a <a title=\"Baseball field\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball_field\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">baseball field<\/span><\/a>.<span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>October 31-Halloween<\/span><\/strong><span> This is the  day children dress up in costumes and, in many communities, go  door-to-door to ask for candy. 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