{"id":14750,"date":"2017-04-30T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=14750"},"modified":"2021-11-05T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:09:30","slug":"2021-the-hackensack-nj-halloween-boo-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=14750","title":{"rendered":"2021 – The Hackensack, NJ, Halloween Boo-Thru"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You get the idea – people drive through the park with their kids in socially-distanced cars and see \u201cnot-too-scary\u201d stuff in broad daylight. But to take my time and shoot everything sequentially, I took a Walk-Thru instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The entrance:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The warning:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Along the way, you\u2019ll see the occasional sign, but rather than post the 5 separate images, I put them together as one (click to enlarge, hit back button to return):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cobwebs to the left, cobwebs to the right and an evil figure in the background cackling (no – not the tall one!):<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a wicked witch (in blue?) who was brandishing a twig at me while laughing in a jarring, high-pitched voice (she must have had a sore throat after 3 hours of that). She also had to hang on to her hat, as it was quite breezy:<\/span><\/p>\n

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While I was there, she cackled at a carful of people who enjoyed her antics:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next to where she was located, the wind suddenly knocked over an inflatable that was dedicated – I\u2019m guessing – to hand-eye coordination. She came running over to lend a hand to stabilize it while the hand kept its eye on her:<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Note: rumor has it that the witch may have been Rose Frontignano, Interim Superintendent of the Hackensack Recreation Department\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.wait – she helped put this whole thing together and then tries to scare people away?)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Next up was this self-explanatory display (it better be – I got nothin\u2019):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always liked candy corn, but a lot of people are not fans of it, so it was nice to see that Hackensack created a bleacherful of what are literally candy corn fans (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here are the next half-dozen sites (check out the names on the tombstones\u2026\u2026\u2026..most are readable………click graveyard and trolley to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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This guy was guarding my car:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coming into the home stretch (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure, but I think I walked in on something I wasn\u2019t supposed to see (left):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, the station that puts a smile on every kid\u2019s face: friendly young ladies in gender-reveal (not theirs – already established)<\/span> colors giving out free candy:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What better way could there be to end the festive Halloween trip through Foschini Park?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 (ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on November 5, 2021)   The WHAT?     You get the idea – people drive through the park with their kids in socially-distanced cars and see \u201cnot-too-scary\u201d stuff in broad daylight. But to take my time and shoot everything sequentially, I took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14781,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions\/14781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}