{"id":228,"date":"2007-11-06T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-11-06T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T13:35:00","slug":"new-yorkwest-village-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/new-yorkwest-village-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/West Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/hayride.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/hayride.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Brendan and Ren\u00e9e taking a hayride<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>Saturday was Fall Festival at Brendan&#8217;s school&#8211;a seasonal fund raising event coming right after Halloween, which is an all day extravaganza at school followed by trick or treating and the Village Halloween parade. It&#8217;s fun, but all a bit over the top for me.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">As part of the festival, we took a hayride through the streets of the West Village. If you squint a bit, and pretend the cars aren&#8217;t there, it could be 150 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/westvillage.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/westvillage.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Barrow Street<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>Meanwhile back in Washington:<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:arial;\" ><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; The Department of Homeland Security will investigate a Halloween costume party hosted by a top immigration official and attended by a man dressed in a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up, a costume some say is offensive, the department&#8217;s secretary said.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:arial;\" >Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and host of the fundraising party, was on a three-judge panel that originally praised the prisoner costume for &#8220;originality.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan and Ren\u00e9e taking a hayrideSaturday was Fall Festival at Brendan&#8217;s school&#8211;a seasonal fund raising event coming right after Halloween, which is an all day extravaganza at school followed by trick or treating and the Village Halloween parade. It&#8217;s fun, but all a bit over the top for me. As part of the festival, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}