{"id":1683,"date":"2015-10-31T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T11:00:44","slug":"how-black-cats-and-headless-horsemen-became-halloween-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"How Black Cats and Headless Horsemen Became Halloween Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-4.15.38-PM.png\" alt=\"How Black Cats and Headless Horsemen Became Halloween Icons\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Witches, black cats, jack-o&#8217;-lanterns. How did these images become so identified with Halloween? The &#8216;Geek&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8217; panel weighs in. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/10\/geeks-guide-halloween-horror\/\">How Black Cats and Headless Horsemen Became Halloween Icons<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/a2.img\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/ach.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/ach.img\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi2.feedsportal.com\/r\/243659784194\/u\/0\/f\/661370\/c\/35185\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/a2t2.img\" border=\"0\" \/><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/c\/35185\/f\/661370\/s\/4b204cf6\/sc\/14\/mf.gif' border='0' \/><br \/>\nSource: Wired.com Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witches, black cats, jack-o&#8217;-lanterns. How did these images become so identified with Halloween? The &#8216;Geek&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy&#8217; panel weighs in. The post How Black Cats and Headless Horsemen Became Halloween Icons appeared first on WIRED. Source: Wired.com Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}