{"id":22282,"date":"2022-10-20T21:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T02:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22282"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T20:17:18","slug":"jack-o-lantern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22282","title":{"rendered":"Jack-O&#8217;-Lantern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22284\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22284\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Jack-O&#039;-Lantern\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_20221020_004908.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack-O&#8217;-Lantern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that in 17th century Britain jack o\u2019lantern was a name for lantern-carrying night watchmen? That&#8217;s what Webster says, anyway. Reading there I also found out that the first known use of jack-o&#8217;lantern in print is in Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s short story, <em>The Great Carbuncle<\/em> (1837), which I happened to read earlier this year. Note that the carbuncle in the story is a deep red gemstone, not an abscess. Anyway, this pumpkin was carved by one of Anna and Greg&#8217;s sons and was greeting folks outside their front door. I think it&#8217;s a pretty well executed jack-o&#8217;lantern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that in 17th century Britain jack o\u2019lantern was a name for lantern-carrying night watchmen? That&#8217;s what Webster says, anyway. Reading there I also found out that the first known use of jack-o&#8217;lantern in print is in Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s short story, The Great Carbuncle (1837), which I happened to read earlier this year. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[376,3252,3253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22287,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions\/22287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}