{"id":13261,"date":"2013-10-27T17:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2013-10-27T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T23:00:25","slug":"its-gourdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/its-gourdy\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Gourdy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13262\" alt=\"gourdy\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy-350x261.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gourdy.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d be lying if I told you that this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">didn&#8217;t<\/span> make me smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t allowed to carve pumpkins (or gourds, fruits, or vegetables) as a kid in October. It never occurred to anyone to try a different month for that because my parents thought it would honor Satan or something.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall harvest time is full of pumpkins and there are plenty of fun things you can do with them. I realized this doesn&#8217;t hurt anybody. My kids have it differently than I did.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never to late to have a better childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Trick-or-treat night in our neighborhood is the most hospitable night of the year&#8230;strangely, even more than Christmas!\u00a0I wrote about that <a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/halloween-night-a-christian-spiritual-practice\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leave links in the comments section to the coolest things you&#8217;ve seen done with pumpkins!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s never to late to have a better childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[5659,4377,1215,1387,1572,1587,1684,1736,4716,1763,4507,1921,4531,4018,2485,5169,2966,3421,3444],"class_list":["post-13261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-comments","tag-do","tag-fall","tag-fun","tag-halloween","tag-harvest","tag-honor","tag-hurt","tag-if","tag-in","tag-kid","tag-kids","tag-neighborhood","tag-night","tag-parents","tag-pumpkins","tag-satan","tag-things","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13265,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13261\/revisions\/13265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}