{"id":5556,"date":"2019-10-31T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2019-10-30T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T01:45:30","slug":"the-halloween-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=5556","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1986Halloween01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1986Halloween01.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1986Halloween01-164x250.jpg 164w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1986Halloween01-524x800.jpg 524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Way back in the 1980s (talk about a time trip) the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 would hold a Halloween party near the end of the month of October. It was a fun party, just getting together, playing games, eating food. They were good times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, some of the Scouts would come dressed for the occasion. Some would not, but everyone had a good time. For those who did dress up we held a costume contest. The troop members would vote for who had the best costume. Some years I dressed up, other years I did not. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and join the boys in the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember the first troop Halloween party in the 1980s. I had a silicone two piece mask set similar to the makeup used in the Planet Of The Apes movies of the 1970s. It took a long time to apply and color but wow, did it look great. I wore it for that first party. I wish I had a picture of myself in that makeup. It looked awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the party for 1986 came along I did not have a costume to wear so I started rummaging through the closet to see what I could put together. I found my old Scout uniform and patch vest, some short shorts, a couple wrist bands, and an old wig my mother used to wear. Add different color socks and you get what you see in the picture. It was groovy, man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troop 68 has not held a Halloween party for many years, decades even. But they were fun when we did have them. Does your troop hold a Halloween party? How many of your Scouts dress up for the occasion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the 1980s (talk about a time trip) the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 would hold a Halloween party near the end of the month of October. It was a fun party, just getting together, playing games, eating food. They were good times. Of course, some of the Scouts would come dressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[420,370,150],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","tag-activity","tag-costume","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}