{"id":678,"date":"2005-11-01T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:34:55","slug":"its-your-duty-to-uphold-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/11\/its-your-duty-to-uphold-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s your duty to uphold tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once of the things that parents must do when raising their children is give them a sense of right and wrong, and a sense of the values of their culture.<\/p>\n<p>This is important! If kids are not guided and molded, how can society maintain its vital traditions?<\/p>\n<p>Parents, I say to you now, it is your DUTY to take your children trick or treating. Haloween depends upon it.<\/p>\n<p>In years past, there were hordes of costumed waifs parading down the block after dark. It has slowed! It is merely a trickle when once it was a mighty flood.<\/p>\n<p>But we, the childless members of society depend on the children to uphold the tradition. Where would we be if the children abandon Halloween?<\/p>\n<p>Do not go only to the businesses and the malls to gather candy! Fie on you, you parents who deem it convenient or &#8216;safe&#8217; to do so!<\/p>\n<p>No, we depend on the children to provide us with a reason to buy large quantities of our favorite candies.<\/p>\n<p>It is your DUTY, parents and children, even if you don&#8217;t feel like it. Even if you don&#8217;t like candy or aren&#8217;t allowed to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>You are the carriers of the torch. If you do not pass it forward, we are lost.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the grim future, the barren and dry future of an America with no more halloween? No sweets, no costumes, no flirting with evil or <em>badness<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Let it not be so! Keep halloween thriving! Dress your children and yourselves!<\/p>\n<p>It is your unhallowed duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once of the things that parents must do when raising their children is give them a sense of right and wrong, and a sense of the values of their culture. This is important! If kids are not guided and molded, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/11\/its-your-duty-to-uphold-tradition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookworthy","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}