{"id":908,"date":"2007-08-26T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/2007\/08\/26\/lizzie-halloween\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:23:45","slug":"lizzie-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/lizzie-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzie Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is still more than a month away and already Halloween is being promoted and discussed. I guess some people really enjoy this celebration. I know I used to. I stopped getting into Halloween when I went all out making a haunted house, had spooky music playing through the open windows, dressed up in a costume, and loaded up on the really good candy—-I had three kids visit that night. The perils of living on a short dead end street. I got to the point where I decided that all the effort was not worth the payoff so I bagged the effort. <\/p>\n

Anyway, some people still love and enjoy Halloween and of course Lizzie is often mentioned as a character that kids and adults like to impersonate. <\/p>\n

An interesting story was recently posted Online about this very thing<\/a>, but with a surprising (to me and to her) ending.<\/p>\n

. . . October is when the holiday hype really begins, with Halloween. Well, I actually heard that Walmart will start putting out the Halloween merchandise at the first of September, so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when the Halloween hype really begins.<\/p>\n

Except Halloween isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the same as it used to be. I used to love trick-or-treating when I was a kid. Now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too old for it, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get to see today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kids trick-or-treating. Again, the job gets in the way. One exception was a few years ago, when Walmart had an indoor trick-or-treat parade inside the store, and we associates got to give out the candy. I was all dressed up in my Lizzie Borden costume, complete with a cleaver. It surprised me that most people had no idea who Lizzie Borden was. I thought everyone knew the poem: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks….\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Anyway, I got some interesting reactions, especially when one kid saw me from a distance and yelled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ahh! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a ghost!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And of course there were many kids in cute costumes, too. I took many pictures and put them up on my Photobucket album. I swear there were at least three Spider-Men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here she is as Lizzie. I think it one of those “kit” costumes, but I like it!<\/p>\n

\"hallowlizzie\"<\/p>\n

So who are you going as this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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