{"id":9971,"date":"2026-10-16T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T17:18:50","slug":"involuntary-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=9971","title":{"rendered":"Involuntary day off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s what I get for using joint compound to fill some minor gaps.  It wasn&#8217;t even close to dry this morning.  Hoping it&#8217;s dry tomorrow.  So I had nothing to do but watch movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538-694x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ghostsoftheozarks-web-cast-1641857570406-2526406538.jpg 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghosts of the Ozarks is about a doctor who joins his uncle in a walled town in the middle of the woods.  People stay within those walls because outside is a strange red mist filled with monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s an excellent creepy town tale, and near the end there are some of those folk horror masks I love so much.  Seriously, I&#8217;d make one and wear it on the night, except we get too many teeny trick-or-treaters who would then be terrified of me.  Gotta tread that line between spooky and scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/lights.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When The Lights Went Out is a typical &#8220;based on a true story&#8221; haunting.  Entertaining, but really not very good.  Best part was the slinky jump scare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I get for using joint compound to fill some minor gaps. It wasn&#8217;t even close to dry this morning. Hoping it&#8217;s dry tomorrow. So I had nothing to do but watch movies. Ghosts of the Ozarks is about a doctor who joins his uncle in a walled town in the middle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9972,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions\/9972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}