{"id":436,"date":"2012-10-25T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-10-25T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:09:37","slug":"halloween-short-for-all-hallow-een","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN [SHORT FOR: ALL HALLOW E’EN]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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J. O’Lantern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not a lot of trick-or-treating goes on in my building, and for the second year running my former neighbor Fitz has invited me up to his house on Hobart Street, NW, where the 1600-block is closed to traffic on the evening of October 31 to make the festivities more family-friendly, and gives Halloween the aura of a block party. Last year I went as a Washington Redskin, and my choice of costume provoked some comments of the \u201cWhy a Redskin?\u201d variety.<\/p>\n

The Burgundy and Gold were on their way to a dismal 4-12 won-loss record by this time last year, and I would explain to my interlocutors that I had come as a sort of virtual-reality Redskin: \u201cI\u2019m not really here! You can run right through me!\u201d I would proclaim. The frustrated fans of Redskin Nation could only mumble, murmur or mutter that they got the joke (at the expense of the Redskins\u2019 hapless defense).<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Redskins are an improved team. By Week 7 of the2012 NFL season, the Redskins had been playing well enough that to reprise the role of an invisible defensive lineman would be too harsh. I believed I would have to rethink my choice of costume.<\/p>\n

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C. Cooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But then tight end Fred Davis ruptured his Achilles tendon in a game on October 21, ending his season, and the Redskins re-signed Chris \u201cCaptain Chaos\u201d Cooley who after an eight-year run as a Redskin and a couple of Pro-Bowl appearances had retired from football rather than play for another franchise when he did not make the team\u2019s roster earlier this year. So I am going to don Chris Cooley\u2019s jersey (thanks again for that Christmas gift, sister Liz) and go again as Redskin (No. 47). If people ask, I\u2019ll tell them: \u201cLook-ee here! I\u2019m Chris Cooley and I\u2019m [insert pregnant pause here] back from the dead!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a lot of trick-or-treating goes on in my building, and for the second year running my former neighbor Fitz has invited me up to his house on Hobart Street, NW, where the 1600-block is closed to traffic on the evening of October 31 to make the festivities more family-friendly, and gives Halloween the aura … Continue reading HALLOWEEN [SHORT FOR: ALL HALLOW E’EN]<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}