{"id":16523,"date":"2026-10-01T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:01:30","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-1-that-same-ol-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16523","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 1 &#8211; That same ol&#8217; witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"So annoying that management did away with its pandemic era work-from-casket policies.\" src=\"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/261001\/261001a.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"626\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><center>(from &#8220;The Second Death of the Spectre&#8221; in <em>Adventure Comics<\/em> #440, July-August 1975; by Michael Fleisher and Jim Aparo)<\/center><\/center><\/center><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Testing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Testing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is this thing still on?<\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the thick veneer of dust and curtains of cobwebs which have accumulated in Armagideon Time HQ will add to the ambience of my foolhardy attempt to reanimate the rotting corpse of this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even have a concept of plan for where this will lead &#8212; and <em>that<\/em>, my friends-in-fright, is truly scary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> Not my favorite rendition of this familiar standard, but she was the vocalist Johnny Mercer had in mind when originally penned the lyrics for it.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhfG5szSEXE?si=M8CblnrQ63Xxiv0A\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (from &#8220;The Second Death of the Spectre&#8221; in Adventure Comics #440, July-August 1975; by Michael Fleisher and Jim Aparo) Testing&#8230; Testing&#8230; Is this thing still on? Sigh. If nothing else, the thick veneer of dust and curtains of cobwebs which have accumulated in Armagideon Time HQ will add to the ambience of my foolhardy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,668,15],"tags":[396,2877,8],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-my-favorite-things","tag-spectre","tag-what-the-hell-am-i-doing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16528,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}