{"id":16374,"date":"2022-10-10T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:53:29","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-10-better-off-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16374","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 10 \u2013 Better off dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/221008\/1001.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"434\" title=\"Taking 'white as a ghost' to a whole new level.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like my grandpa used to say: &#8220;The only thing worse than a haunted muscle car is a haunted <em>racist<\/em> muscle car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple problematic aspects aside, this episode (&#8220;The Ghost of General Lee,&#8221; 10\/29\/1979) creeped the heck out of me as a kid, even though it was clearly established as a hoax out of the gate. The presentation was so dang spooky that it totally eclipsed the &#8220;Bo and Luke pretending to be dead to get revenge on Rosco&#8221; angle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a prime example of the &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I was young enough and dopey enough to be enthralled by this trash, but it sure was fun at the time&#8221; dichotomy which continues to drive my popcult dumpster diving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0y91i0YqDk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like my grandpa used to say: &#8220;The only thing worse than a haunted muscle car is a haunted racist muscle car.&#8221; Multiple problematic aspects aside, this episode (&#8220;The Ghost of General Lee,&#8221; 10\/29\/1979) creeped the heck out of me as a kid, even though it was clearly established as a hoax out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9,668],"tags":[28,2853,13,1880,74],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-culture","category-halloween-countdown","tag-1970s","tag-dukes-of-hazzard","tag-nightmare-fuel","tag-trash","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16375,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}