{"id":16566,"date":"2026-10-11T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16566"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:34:18","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-11-never-felt-like-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16566","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 11 \u2013 Never felt like this before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/261011\/1011.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"600\" title=\"*sounds of Beethoven's Ode to Joy intensify*\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What a time to be a junior high geek whose family just bought their first VCR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> that&#8217;s on top of it being around the same time a direct market comic shop opened within biking distance of my house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> the local pool hall and bowling alley added arcade games to their floor space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> I found a deeply discounted copy of the D&#038;D Basic Set on the shelf at Osco Drug.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> A UHF music video channel started up in the Boston media market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And<\/strong> I had a shoulder length rat-tail and wore a Scorpions raglan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong> Weird.  I didn&#8217;t think heaven would smell so much like Aqua Net and cloves.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8weD6mClMIo?si=zuDx2ZBBceoRbmyq\" 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>What a time to be a junior high geek whose family just bought their first VCR. And that&#8217;s on top of it being around the same time a direct market comic shop opened within biking distance of my house. And the local pool hall and bowling alley added arcade games to their floor space. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,668,15],"tags":[2213,2426,1959,2752],"class_list":["post-16566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-2213","tag-2426","tag-as-the-twig-is-bent","tag-yes-we-have-a-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566","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=16566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16567,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions\/16567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}