{"id":640,"date":"2009-09-29T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/640"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:28:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:28:38","slug":"lights-pumpkins-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/640","title":{"rendered":"Lights, Pumpkins, Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2002, back in the relatively early days of <a href=\"\/intro\/intro.htm\">Introspection<\/a>, I first came up with the idea of altering the whole theme of the blog site to celebrate Halloween.  In 2004, after two years of just changing the color scheme, I actually overhauled the graphic header as well.  The rest has been history.  As you can see (if you can&#8217;t see, hit <b>refresh<\/b>!), it&#8217;s another October season today.<\/p>\n<p>The rains have been sweeping through, often hightailing it on the back of even stronger winds.  Today is the first really chilly seeming day and I can already envision the crispness of my breath emerging as the barracks become even more depressing and the walls seem even thinner.  Already I&#8217;m starting to wonder when we should start moving stuff away from the heater so we can be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>And yet there&#8217;s the anticipation of October that seems even more exciting on the East Coast, what with the promise of leaves changing and falling and eventual snow.  This is what I&#8217;ve missed so dearly, the real seasonal change that is present in most of the world but sorely lacking in the Bay Area.  A change in the surroundings that matches the internal perceptual change of the time.  People do better with external confirmations of their internal understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Which, I guess, is why I revel in the visualization present on the page.  So there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2002, back in the relatively early days of Introspection, I first came up with the idea of altering the whole theme of the blog site to celebrate Halloween. In 2004, after two years of just changing the color scheme, I actually overhauled the graphic header as well. The rest has been history. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,50,51],"tags":[5,3,6,4],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-blue-pyramid-news","category-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","category-metablogging","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-blue-pyramid-news","tag-but-the-past-isnt-done-with-us","tag-metablogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}