{"id":3739,"date":"2025-11-13T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2026-07-02T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T14:09:02","slug":"halloween-pumpkins-past-their-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/halloween-pumpkins-past-their-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween pumpkins past their prime"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s November 13th, and these Halloween pumpkins in my neighborhood are almost 2 weeks past their big day, and definitely past their prime. I like how\u2013if you look from left to right\u2013 they seem to get in worse shape. We’ve got the guy at left who can still muster a laugh; the 2nd guy is a bit grumpy about still being out here, the 3rd guy is so tired, he’s fallen face forward and lost his hat. Then the 4th guy – my favorite – is just all sunken in, barely able to mutter a groan.<\/p>\n

But at the same house, in the front yard, there’s a fresh and still-intact pumpkin, who can probably attribute his good condition to being painted instead of carved. But he’s still aghast at the condition of the others, especially my guy Yellow Pumpkin.<\/p>\n

\"Halloween
Halloween pumpkins, one old, one worried.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have a habit of noticing random things while I’m out walking around, and this collection of pumpkins seemed to write their own story in my imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s November 13th, and these Halloween pumpkins in my neighborhood are almost 2 weeks past their big day, and definitely past their prime. I like how\u2013if you look from left to right\u2013 they seem to get in worse shape. We’ve got the guy at left who can still muster a laugh; the 2nd guy is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48],"tags":[345,905,713],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","category-street-photography","tag-halloween","tag-pumpkins","tag-street-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}