{"id":3244,"date":"2011-09-17T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2011-09-17T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T15:10:15","slug":"green-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"Green Halloween?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>First of all, I took this photo on August 26th. Is this what the new Pagan future will look like? Everyone complaining that it is not even the equinox, but the stores are full of Halloween merchandise?<\/p>\n

This building used to be a Toys “R” Us store in Pueblo, Colo., until that chain suddenly contracted<\/a>. It has been empty ever since, except that the Spirit Halloween party company <\/a>rents it some years for the weeks leading up to Halloween.<\/p>\n

Months ago it got the “Green Store” sign, supposedly for a thrift store<\/a>, but that business still has not opened. (There were management problems<\/a>, for one thing.)<\/p>\n

But plastic skulls and sexy-witch costumes <\/a>still sell well, at least for two months of the year!<\/p>\n

In other news,<\/em><\/strong> my absence from blogging was due to a trip to Yellowstone, M.’s and my first real vacation of more than a long-weekend’s length since last November.\u00a0 I am posting about our trip at Southern Rockies Nature Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, I took this photo on August 26th. Is this what the new Pagan future will look like? Everyone complaining that it is not even the equinox, but the stores are full of Halloween merchandise? This building used to be a Toys “R” Us store in Pueblo, Colo., until that chain suddenly contracted. 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