{"id":5140,"date":"2010-10-25T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/25\/poll-halloween-books\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T09:58:48","slug":"poll-halloween-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/25\/poll-halloween-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Halloween Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot something that I need to do today, so no lengthy and detailed blogging this morning. Instead, a quick poll regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2010\/10\/modest-proposal-that-doesnt-actually.html\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s suggestion of giving kids scary books for Halloween<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3982453.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3982453\/\">Neil Gaiman suggests giving kids scary books for Halloween. What do you think?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Halloween is a classic holiday, which means you&#8217;re bound by classical rules, and can only choose one item, not a quantum superposition of multiple options.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(I think he means giving scary books to kids you know or are related to, not handing them out to Trick-or-Treaters, but it&#8217;s more amusing to picture it that way. Also, I am aware of the European roots of Halloween, so don&#8217;t feel like you need to point out that it originated in Britain.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot something that I need to do today, so no lengthy and detailed blogging this morning. Instead, a quick poll regarding Neil Gaiman&#8217;s suggestion of giving kids scary books for Halloween: Neil Gaiman suggests giving kids scary books for Halloween. What do you think?online surveys Halloween is a classic holiday, which means you&#8217;re&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/25\/poll-halloween-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: Halloween Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,137,37,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-polls","category-pop_culture","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}