{"id":508,"date":"2010-10-20T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/?p=144"},"modified":"2010-10-20T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:20:39","slug":"halloween-is-coming-october-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/2010\/10\/20\/halloween-is-coming-october-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN IS COMING &#8211; OCTOBER 31ST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"padding: 0px;margin: 0px\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">HALLOWEEN FUN AND SAFETY!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;padding: 5px;border: initial none initial\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/bats3-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"bats\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/>History<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0 Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices,\u00a0Catholic\u00a0 and Roman religious rituals\u00a0and European folk traditions that blended together over\u00a0time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth, and ancient Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts. The Celtic holiday of Samhain, the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Saints\u2019 Day and All Souls\u2019 Day and the Roman festival of Feralia all influenced the modern holiday of Halloween. In the 19th century, Halloween\u00a0began to lose its religious connotation,\u00a0becoming a more\u00a0secular\u00a0community-based children\u2019s holiday. Although the superstitions and beliefs surrounding Halloween may have evolved over the years, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people can still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet\u00a0 treats to usher in the season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00529c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 800\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;font-size: 11px;text-align: center;margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN FUN AND SAFETY! History \u2013 \u00a0\u00a0 Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices,\u00a0Catholic\u00a0 and Roman religious rituals\u00a0and European folk traditions that blended together over\u00a0time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/pha\/2010\/10\/20\/halloween-is-coming-october-31st\/\">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":[1],"tags":[16,43,66],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pairs","tag-halloween","tag-trick-or-treat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HALLOWEEN IS COMING - OCTOBER 31ST - Au Pairs On The Main Line<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HALLOWEEN IS COMING - OCTOBER 31ST - Au Pairs On The Main Line\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HALLOWEEN FUN AND SAFETY! 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