The event we call ‘Halloween’ is becoming bigger and bigger in Australia every year. For us this is a relatively new thing.<\/p>\n
As kids growing up in a small South Australian country town, Halloween was some strange ritual played out in American movies involving kids dressing up in scary costumes soliciting treats from well prepared locals.<\/p>\n
I recall one of my enterprising friends (thank you Squish!) tried to organise a ‘Trick or Treat’ expedition one Halloween evening which ended up very badly with confused locals and several threats to call the police.<\/p>\n
Now I see Halloween embraced everywhere. I wonder how many caught up in the costumes and pranks really understand its origins.<\/p>\n
Image by artist Joshua Smith, found in an Adelaide alleyway. <\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Halloween Prayer’, 1\/50s f\/2.5 ISO640 50mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The event we call ‘Halloween’ is becoming bigger and bigger in Australia every year. For us this is a relatively new thing. As kids growing up in a small South Australian country town, Halloween was some strange ritual played out in American movies involving kids dressing up in scary costumes soliciting treats from well prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,153,167,1128,150,1129,1130,159,1132,1133,154,152,1131],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adelaide","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-bankstreet","tag-graffiti","tag-halloween","tag-joshuasmith","tag-painting","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-street","tag-streetart","tag-wallart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5482,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}