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So I read this post by <\/span>Elizabeth Esther about Hall<\/span>oween<\/a>.  I also got word that my niece and her husband have decided NOT to celebrate Halloween or teach their kids to believe in Santa.  I totally respect<\/u><\/strong><\/em> that.  But we’ve made other decisions in our family.<\/p>\n

We “do” Halloween.  I grew up with it, even as a pentecostal preacher’s kid.  We had Halloween parties at church where we bobbed for apples, ate candy and dressed up (whatever was cheapest to put together).  As a young adult I went to a church that decided to ignore it.  I went along with that for a season.  Then I got married, we had kids, and we decided we wanted candy and loved seeing our neighbors (sometimes meeting them for the first time) come around. Then we started going to a church<\/a> that puts on a Fall Festival and also was the first place I learned about All Saint’s Day<\/a> and what Halloween was in relation to that.  We do teach our children that there is a real Satan and there is real evil out there.  But on Halloween we choose candy with our friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I read this post by Elizabeth Esther about Halloween.  I also got word that my niece and her husband have decided NOT to celebrate Halloween or teach their kids to believe in Santa.  I totally respect that.  But we’ve made other decisions in our family. We “do” Halloween.  I grew up with it, even …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-PZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}