{"id":768,"date":"2004-10-20T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/10\/which-witch.html"},"modified":"2004-10-20T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:12:00","slug":"which-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/10\/which-witch.html","title":{"rendered":"Which Witch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The perfect fall day presented itself on Sunday morning, and I was in a New England state of mind so we decided to take a Halloween-y trip to Salem<\/a>. The town wasn’t as frightful as I had hoped (although some of the locals do take the season a wee bit far), but it was a lovely town and we had a nice morning. A nice breakfast (at which we introduced our child to chocolate milk; that<\/i> he loved, even though he refused all other offers of human food substances), a walk through the marketplace, a few stops to listen to the musicians or to watch dogs.<\/p>\n

The most challenging thing we did was try and decide which witches to watch. There’s the Salem Witch Museum<\/a>, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial<\/a>, the Salem Witch Village<\/a>, the Witch Dungeon Museum<\/a>, the Witch History Museum<\/a>, the Witch House<\/a>, and the Witch Mansion in 3D<\/a>. Got that?<\/p>\n

We decided on the Salem Witch Museum because… well, because we had to pick just one and that’s the one we picked. For those visiting Salem, let me give you a bit of advice: If you have a toddler who wants to toddle, don’t go to a museum that primarily consists of a twenty-minute show where you need to sit on the floor. First of all, said toddler will want to take off. Especially because there’s a bright and shiny red circle<\/a> in the middle of the floor that looks like so much fun! And second, because in those moments just after the music has swelled and the tension has peaked, and a moment of silence ensues, nothing kills the moment like a tiny–yet strong–“ba ba ba ba ba” ringing across the room. Luckily for us, just as we cringed, stage-whispering “shhhs!” in his ear, my hand over our child’s mouth (which he thought meant we were going to play the game where we tap our hand on his mouth so he can make neat sounds), someone’s cell phone went off. Which wouldn’t have been so<\/i> bad… except the guy answered it. The woman he was with covered her face with her hands and literally sunk down so as not to be seen with him.<\/p>\n

Because\/despite Doodles’s enthusiasm, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It’ll be more fun to go back when he’s older and can appreciate the history and the fun of the town. But in the meantime, I’m going to have my fill of candy corn and Halloween peeps. Boo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The perfect fall day presented itself on Sunday morning, and I was in a New England state of mind so we decided to take a Halloween-y trip to Salem. The town wasn’t as frightful as I had hoped (although some of the locals do take the season a wee bit far), but it was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}