{"id":24774,"date":"2025-10-26T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24774"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:31:21","slug":"silas-dressed-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24774","title":{"rendered":"Silas Dressed for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24776\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24776\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Silas Dressed for Halloween\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_20251026_027177.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silas Dressed for Halloween<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Iris and Seth invited us, along with the rest of the local family and a few friends, to a Halloween party this evening. We wore costumes, but honestly it was more about getting together than about dressing up. Eloise and Silas did show us their costumes. Eloise was a rain storm, with an &#x201c;umbrella cloud&#x201d; and Silas dressed in with this illusion costume being carried by a skeleton. It worked pretty well and occasionally he&#8217;d move his legs, crossing and uncrossing them, which really added to the effect.<\/p>\n<p>Cathy and I wore fairly basic costumes. Cathy wore a Tajik dress, an Afghan hat and an Afghan scarf. I put on my cowboy boots, tied a bandana around my neck and wore my cowboy hat. I had already been wearing a denim shirt. So I was a cowboy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris and Seth invited us, along with the rest of the local family and a few friends, to a Halloween party this evening. We wore costumes, but honestly it was more about getting together than about dressing up. Eloise and Silas did show us their costumes. Eloise was a rain storm, with an &#x201c;umbrella cloud&#x201d; &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24774\">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":[5],"tags":[37,376,3796,3797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774"}],"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=24774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24778,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions\/24778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}