{"id":329,"date":"2013-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/rainyproducts\/the-halloween-spirit-is-still-alive-1\/"},"modified":"2013-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:00:00","slug":"the-halloween-spirit-is-still-alive-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/rainyproducts\/the-halloween-spirit-is-still-alive-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween spirit is still alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"previewPostBlock imagePostBlock\">\n<div class=\"posRelative\">\n<ul class=\"postImageSlider\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.empowernetwork.com\/user_images\/post\/2013\/10\/23\/4\/5e\/bfea\/540x293_20131023_45ebfeaf5de79a9562ec2e62367d575a_jpg.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"293\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"pager\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n<span><span><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Halloween spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Halloween spirit<\/em> is alive and well!\u00a0 All though, Halloween has taken a different turn from one I was a little girl!\u00a0 The excitement and the anticipation have not changed.\u00a0 When I was little, your costume was a personal put together and done by yourself thing, that took a little time, effort, and creativity!\u00a0 Today all a kid has to do is beg their parent to buy them a costume!\u00a0 I do not see too many kids making their costumes too much today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was not a limited time to trick or treat when I was young.\u00a0 You ran home from school, wolfed down dinner, got your double brown paper bag and went out to get as much candy as your bag would hold.\u00a0 When your bag got too full, you ran back home, got another double brown paper bag and went out again!\u00a0 My mother made us come home at 9 pm.\u00a0 Today, most kids use Halloween designed plastic bags!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halloween gets much more advertisement than Thanksgiving!\u00a0 We never saw a commercial about Halloween!\u00a0 Cartoons and scary movies were around, but not to the degree they are today!\u00a0 If you go to the movie theatre today, half of the movies are scary at this time of year!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other things have changed, such as the Halloween decorations!\u00a0 In my neighborhood, almost every house has some sort of outside deor!\u00a0 Down the street, this man has about fifty different scary monsters in his front yard!\u00a0 He is in his front yard on Halloween, with a chain saw in his hand scaring kids!\u00a0 Other people have turned their garages into haunted houses that you have to walk through before you get your treat!\u00a0 There are more haunted houses, pumpkin patches with hay rides, and other Halloween amusements!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People in the United States spend a lot of money on Halloween around seven billion dollars!\u00a0 It has become big business for the retailers!\u00a0 Over 2.5 billion is spent on costumes of which 300 million is spent on pet costumes!\u00a0 Two billion is spent on candy and just a little bit of that is spent on decorations.\u00a0 Yes, Halloween is a big business!\u00a0 Nevertheless, the Halloween spirit is still alive today, and I do not see it dying down soon!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.empowernetwork.com\/recruitingtrick?id+rainyproducts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Halloween spirit is still alive!\">GET IN THE SPIRIT!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Halloween spirt is still alive!\">THRILLER!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween spirit \u00a0 The Halloween spirit is alive and well!\u00a0 All though, Halloween has taken a different turn from one I was a little girl!\u00a0 The excitement and the anticipation have not changed.\u00a0 When I was little, your costume was a personal put together and done by yourself thing, that took a little time, effort, 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