{"id":631,"date":"2011-10-30T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-10-30T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:22:15","slug":"halloween%e2%80%a62011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/2011\/10\/30\/halloween%e2%80%a62011\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween\u20262011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Family and Friends, but we just couldn\u2019t not do this.<\/p>\n<p>You probably already guessed what.<\/p>\n<p>You know this obsession we have with sustainable living and the application of solar technology to everyday life?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, we just had to carve a solar jack-o-lantern this year.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SolarPumpkin3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-651\" title=\"SolarPumpkin3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SolarPumpkin3-1024x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SolarPumpkin3-1024x418.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SolarPumpkin3-300x122.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SolarPumpkin3.jpg 1602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe call this year\u2019s pumpkin \u201cTwo Solar Spooks.&#8221; It was easy to make. Take a regular old pumpkin, carve it, and jam a solar yard light inside (Gail&#8217;s idea). There\u2019s very little maintenance because it even turns itself on at dusk. You might have to take the lid off during the day to let sunlight charge it back up if your carving doesn\u2019t let in enough light. But it\u2019s safe and doesn\u2019t violate the HOA prohibition against open flame in our yard. And of course there is no burning or CO2 dumped into the air. How good is that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Family and Friends, but we just couldn\u2019t not do this. You probably already guessed what. You know this obsession we have with sustainable living and the application of solar technology to everyday life? That\u2019s right, we just had to carve a solar jack-o-lantern this year. We call this year\u2019s pumpkin \u201cTwo Solar Spooks.&#8221; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-sustainably"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowforourturn.org\/CosmicReflections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}