{"id":1699,"date":"2013-06-27T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:21:42","slug":"school-programs-and-the-great-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"School Programs and the Great Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a03.60 miles<\/p>\n<p>My husband and I met the very first day of eighth grade. \u00a0We were sent to the Principals office together. \u00a0That is the story we like to tell and most of it is true. \u00a0We were not in trouble however, the home room had forgotten our milk passes and we were sent to the office to retrieve them. That is how we met and for the most part (give or take a few arguments) we have been together ever since. \u00a0How romantic!<\/p>\n<p>Because we have been together for that long, we have been required to participate in school functions together. \u00a0Enter: \u00a0School programs.<\/p>\n<p>Our Civics\/History Teacher was BIG on school programs and she had one every Fall and every Spring. \u00a0The Fall one was called The Harvest Happening and the Spring one was a Patriotic Program. We were not happy to be in either of them but being we were the students and she was the teacher&#8230;yup~we participated.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriotic Program was not so awful. \u00a0You stood up and as a group sang a few songs:&#8221;I&#8217;m just a flag waving American&#8221; and said some things like, &#8220;I just love a parade, the Fourth of July just wouldn&#8217;t be right without a parade&#8221;. \u00a0But the Harvest Happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You see, my mother had made me a Pumpkin Suit. \u00a0It was HUGE! \u00a0It took two weeks of wadded up newspapers to stuff it to capacity. \u00a0I wore green tights, the stuffed pumpkin suit, and a hat made from a toilet paper tube (the tube was covered in green fabric and looked like a stem) and had to walk around in front of my classmates and hand out candy to little kids. \u00a0I caught a lot of flack from my friends for that. \u00a0They all sang their little song and then their humiliation was over. \u00a0Mine lasted about two hours at the reception after the program.<\/p>\n<p>And I had to do it eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade. \u00a0Year after year I saved newspapers and dutifully dressed up as the Great Pumpkin. \u00a0Our teacher loved it. \u00a0The little kids coming to me for candy loved it. \u00a0The parents loved it. \u00a0My husband to be thought it was cute and always managed to get a pic of me for the yearbook. \u00a0(thanks dear.)<\/p>\n<p>I have turned the house upside down this afternoon looking for that pic of myself in the pumpkin suit but to no avail. \u00a0 You will just have to trust me on this one~I look pretty silly. \u00a0BUT, here is a pic of my husband and myself in our Jr. year of High School. \u00a0We had been &#8220;together&#8221; at this time for three years. \u00a0We are both still 16 in this pic. \u00a0circa 1978.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?attachment_id=1700\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1700\" alt=\"Scan_Pic0076 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Scan_Pic0076-2.jpg\" width=\"909\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Scan_Pic0076-2.jpg 909w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Scan_Pic0076-2-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Scan_Pic0076-2-384x300.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a03.60 miles My husband and I met the very first day of eighth grade. \u00a0We were sent to the Principals office together. \u00a0That is the story we like to tell and most of it is true. \u00a0We were not in trouble however, the home room had forgotten our milk passes and we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}