{"id":6901,"date":"2021-11-02T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"november-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6901","title":{"rendered":"NOVEMBER FIRST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am always so conflicted on November 1st. On the one hand, I am so glad to see Halloween&#8217;s celebration of death and gore and fear in the rearview mirror.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I am no crusader against Halloween &#8211; I just have no use for it. I do, however, envy the extra time, energy and money some of my neighbors seem to have in connection with the &#8220;holiday&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211010_214031_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I am glad when it passes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, November 1st discourages me because we have hardly finished burying Halloween before we start trotting out all the Christmas candy and decorations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So &#8230; &#8216;Tis the season!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I briefly visited Big Lots today and saw a sign that said, &#8220;Happy HAVE-IT-ALL idays!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least it&#8217;s completely out in the open now &#8211; can we stop pretending?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way, I think I have already spotted this year&#8217;s hot gift:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211101_115648_HDR-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211101_115701-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ring lights!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get one for all the narcissists on your list this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always so conflicted on November 1st. On the one hand, I am so glad to see Halloween&#8217;s celebration of death and gore and fear in the rearview mirror.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I am no crusader against Halloween &#8211; I just have no use for it. I do, however, envy the extra time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6905,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions\/6905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}