{"id":611,"date":"2016-10-05T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:16:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:16:52","slug":"book-of-the-week-the-october-country-by-ray-bradbury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/10\/05\/book-of-the-week-the-october-country-by-ray-bradbury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week: The October Country by Ray Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/October-Country-Ray-Bradbury\/dp\/034532448X\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475626636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+october+country&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=e810a463f9e11a26ce8403f9a1092b8d\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51aFDYSam3L._SL250_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people view the beginning of October as one of two things: the beginning of the Halloween season or the continued encroachment of Christmas on more and more holiday seasons (essentially and cannibalisticly devouring every other holiday in its path). I don&#8217;t care what you think about Christmas,\u00a0it&#8217;s that Halloween feeling that I want to evoke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/October-Country-Ray-Bradbury\/dp\/034532448X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475626636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+october+country&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=1bdfe9c597cf9b0174daa74c9b3ed9bf\">The October Country<\/a>\u00a0reminds us there&#8217;s a whole lot more to the season than only All Hallows&#8217; Eve. We&#8217;ve got overcast skies and crisp, chilly weather. Leaves change colors and winds blow them down. There\u00a0are\u00a0pumpkins and witches and goblins and ghosts, but there\u00a0are\u00a0also black bats, grim reapers and crows. Night terrors and shadows and full, orange harvest moons, shrieking and laughter and cobwebs galore. Truly it&#8217;s not a single holiday but an entire country to explore.<\/p>\n<p>Well Ray Bradbury does just that. He invokes the spirit of\u00a0<em>this<\/em> season, that Halloween feel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/October-Country-Ray-Bradbury\/dp\/034532448X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475626636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+october+country&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=1bdfe9c597cf9b0174daa74c9b3ed9bf\">The October Country<\/a> is a book of short stories, but each one is a vignette that tickles the senses and tingles the spine. My favorite is The Scythe.<\/p>\n<p>October is here. Bite\u00a0a sweet carmel apple, get\u00a0a copy of this book and go read it!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tdspeirs-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=034532448X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people view the beginning of October as one of two things: the beginning of the Halloween season or the continued encroachment of Christmas on more and more holiday seasons (essentially and cannibalisticly devouring every other holiday in its path). I don&#8217;t care what you think about Christmas,\u00a0it&#8217;s that Halloween feeling that I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-of-the-week","7":"category-halloween","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}