{"id":5121,"date":"2009-10-20T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"His Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>His Costume<\/b><br \/>\nA couple of weekends ago our church had its annual Harvest Party.  One of the activities every year is a costume contest.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, I am a slacker.   I didn&#8217;t really <i>talk<\/i> about the costume contest all that much.  Therefore no one asked for help with his costume.  My laziness truly knows no bounds.<\/p>\n<p>When we got there costume-less, my oldest son decided that he wanted to be in the costume contest.  <\/p>\n<p>He walked over to where the judging was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>He told them that he wanted to enter.<\/p>\n<p>It was patiently explained to him that to be judged in the costume contest one actually had to be wearing a costume.  The folks running the judging kindly pointed out to him that the jeans, t-shirt and hoodie he was sporting didn&#8217;t really count.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but he insisted that he <b>was<\/b> wearing a costume.<\/p>\n<p>They asked him what he was dressed as.  He replied, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/auto_images\/hires\/img08331256043610.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/auto_images\/lowres\/img08331256043610.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I&#8217;m the employee of the month.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Costume A couple of weekends ago our church had its annual Harvest Party. One of the activities every year is a costume contest. Well, I am a slacker. I didn&#8217;t really talk about the costume contest all that much. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=5121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}