{"id":73757,"date":"2011-10-31T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=73757"},"modified":"2011-10-31T06:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:29:25","slug":"top-10-reasons-to-love-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/10\/31\/top-10-reasons-to-love-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons To Love Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has gotten into the Halloween spirit by posting a new Google Doodle of some pumpkin carving. You can check out the video by going to the search engine, but their video illustrates one of the 10 reasons to love Halloween. <\/p>\n<p>#1 <strong> Carving Pumpkins<\/strong>: There is something therapeutic about cutting a design into a pumpkin. It&#8217;s also gratifying to see that you can turn a gourd into a piece of art, and seeing that piece of art come to life with a candle stuck inside it is even better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.shockya.com\/2011\/10\/making-scary-food-for-halloween\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a> FOR THE NEXT IN THE SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-pumpkin-doodle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-pumpkin-doodle.jpg\" alt=\"Google Doodle Halloween\" title=\"Google Doodle Halloween\" width=\"460\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-pumpkin-doodle.jpg 439w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-pumpkin-doodle-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you love about Halloween? Give your comments below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has gotten into the Halloween spirit by posting a new Google Doodle of some pumpkin carving. You can check out the video by going to the search engine, but their video illustrates one of the 10 reasons to love Halloween. #1 Carving Pumpkins: There is something therapeutic about cutting a design into a pumpkin. 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