{"id":22201,"date":"2022-11-10T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2022-11-10T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T02:28:40","slug":"too-much-christmas-much-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22201","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Christmas, Much Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My husband and I stopped at Target on Tuesday to return a few things. While we were there, I checked to see if they had any discounted Halloween candy, because I had a hankering for candy corn. Whoever was responsible for ordering the Halloween candy at Target had totally overdone it on the Brach&#8217;s Autumn Mix this year. There were boxes and boxes of it left over. We arrived just in time to snag a bag of it. A Target employee was removing the product from the shelves even as I debated over whether to get the traditional candy corn or the Autumn Mix. I don&#8217;t know what they were planning to do with the excess candy (the woman said they were &#8220;getting rid of it&#8221;). It&#8217;s sad, but there&#8217;s no room in the world for leftover Halloween candy anymore. Everyone&#8217;s obsessed with Christmas now. Considering that some stores start putting Christmas stuff on the shelves in October, skipping Halloween and Thanksgiving both, I guess I should be grateful that Target at least still lets us have Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In related news, I am irritated that Hallmark and other streaming services have pretty much skipped autumn and moved straight into winter\/Christmas romance movies. Don&#8217;t they know that autumn is awesome? There ought to be oodles of autumn-themed movies, and that&#8217;s what I want to watch right now. If I were to start watching Christmas movies now, not only would they be totally out of season, but there wouldn&#8217;t be any new ones left by the time December rolled around. Save Christmas for December. Meanwhile, give me more romances featuring Halloween, fall foliage, hayrides, pumpkins, apples, and other fun, fall-related things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I stopped at Target on Tuesday to return a few things. While we were there, I checked to see if they had any discounted Halloween candy, because I had a hankering for candy corn. Whoever was responsible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22205,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions\/22205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}