{"id":6184,"date":"2011-10-19T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2011-10-19T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:22:28","slug":"best-idea-for-halloween-neighbourhood-fun-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/best-idea-for-halloween-neighbourhood-fun-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best idea for Halloween neighbourhood fun ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> simply had to interrupt my series of post-Blissdom Canada posts to share this awesome Halloween fun idea with you!<\/p>\n

Last night, I was loading the dishwasher and checking homework and doing laundry and preparing lunches and all the other fun things we do between dinnertime and bedtime when I heard a very faint knock on the door. I figured it was Beloved, who had been teaching late, and that one of the kids had slipped the lock on the door, so sent Lucas to open the door for him. When Lucas reported that nobody was there, I stuck my nose out, wondering if maybe the screen door had come loose again.<\/p>\n

This was sitting on the porch:<\/p>\n

\"Boo<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Boo<\/a><\/p>\n

A plastic cauldron filled with inexpensive Halloween treats and toys, dropped anonymously on the porch — how amazing is that?! The boys and I were tickled orange and black! Also in the cauldron were two pieces of paper. One had a big black BOO printed on it, and the other had a happy little Halloween poem and a set of instructions that said:<\/p>\n

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  1. Enjoy your treat.<\/li>\n
  2. Place your BOO on your front door.<\/li>\n
  3. Now you have 24 hours to copy this twice, make 2 treats, copy 2 BOOs and secretly deliver them to 2 neighbours who do not have a BOO on their front door.<\/li>\n
  4. Then watch how far this spreads by Halloween.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Is that not AWESOME? I’d never heard of anything like this, but Twitter seemed to have heard of this and called it “ghosting” and “BOOing” — apparently it’s a thing now. And don’t you want to totally start it in your neighbourhood? Well, you should! And to help, I’ve scanned the original poem<\/a> and BOO sign<\/a> and saved them as PDFs in dropbox, so you can print out your own copies and start the BOO flowing in your neighbourhood!<\/p>\n

    What fun! Now I’m off to BOO two of my neighbours, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I simply had to interrupt my series of post-Blissdom Canada posts to share this awesome Halloween fun idea with you! Last night, I was loading the dishwasher and checking homework and doing laundry and preparing lunches and all the other fun things we do between dinnertime and bedtime when I heard a very faint knock … Continue reading “Best idea for Halloween neighbourhood fun ever!”<\/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":[77,73,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-for-kiddies","category-ottawa-family-fun","category-postcards-from-manotick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}