{"id":1286,"date":"2006-10-31T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:38:41","slug":"i-won-ten-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"I won ten million dollars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/IMG_1114-20copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/IMG_1114-20copy-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> No, not really.  But I thought the DH and I pulled off our Halloween Costume Party ruse pretty well.  People who didn&#8217;t see us arrive in the Prize Patrol truck or me carrying around the humungous $10 million check and bouquet of roses wondered what I was supposed to be with my bathrobe and hair in curlers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">My husband was perfectly happy to not have to *dress up* &#8211; wearing a suit is dressing up enough for him.  A friend of ours who owns a sign shop made our props &#8211; the check, the balloons, the Prize Patrol signs for my DH&#8217;s truck.  We even won a contest for the *most unique* costume &#8211; not bad considering I had no ideas until a day or two before the party!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Wish I could take credit for the idea, but I found it (and lots of other great ideas) on a site I linked to in the comments on my previous post about the costume party.  If anyone is looking for last-minute ideas, that site is worth a look!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I have some more pics to share of the other partygoers, but Blogger is as cranky as ever about loading them.  Maybe tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not really. But I thought the DH and I pulled off our Halloween Costume Party ruse pretty well. People who didn&#8217;t see us arrive in the Prize Patrol truck or me carrying around the humungous $10 million check and bouquet of roses wondered what I was supposed to be with my bathrobe and hair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I won ten million dollars!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}