{"id":64558,"date":"2014-10-30T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=64558"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:27:30","slug":"a-brief-history-of-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/10\/30\/a-brief-history-of-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about how the money spent on adult Halloween revelry now rivals,\u00a0or even exceeds, that spent on kids. This may seem like a surprising shift, but it turns out it&#8217;s the focus on children that&#8217;s new. Halloween as the kid holiday we know it in the U.S. today was really invented in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>This, and more fun facts about the history of Halloween, in this two-minute History Channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/halloween\/halloween-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.history.com\/pservice\/embed-player\/?siteId=hist&amp;tPid=33230280\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote about how the money spent on adult Halloween revelry now rivals,\u00a0or even exceeds, that spent on kids. This may seem like a surprising shift, but it turns out it&#8217;s the focus on children that&#8217;s new. Halloween as the kid holiday we know it in the U.S. today was really invented in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":64563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,233,403,253,254,1817,3920],"class_list":["post-64558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-death","tag-deviance","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/10\/34.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64564,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64558\/revisions\/64564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}