{"id":87969,"date":"2026-10-30T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87969"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:00:38","slug":"neighbors-protesting-over-the-top-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/neighbors-protesting-over-the-top-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors Protesting Over-The-Top Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"emoyrq42 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">In Verona, N.J., a 12-foot, laser-eyed animatronic skeleton groans and shifts its gargantuan frame over a graveyard of skulls. It is the towering centerpiece of Anthony Carrara\u2019s front yard.\u00a0Carrara and his wife are Halloween devotees who frequent haunted houses and horror-themed bars. This year, they ramped up their home display, deploying a grim reaper, a zombie, animal skeletons and Oogie Boogie from \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1qcjy9n0\">\n<p class=\"emoyrq42 e1bc1vag0 css-1uzoyz5-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" data-testid=\"paragraph\">It was all too much for one neighbor. Within two days of putting up his decorations in late September, Carrara, 40, received an anonymous note from a local parent complaining that the ghoulish display was terrorizing their children as they walked to school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: In Verona, N.J., a 12-foot, laser-eyed animatronic skeleton groans and shifts its gargantuan frame over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87970,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions\/87970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}