{"id":609,"date":"2011-10-31T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=609"},"modified":"2011-10-31T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T21:01:11","slug":"zombie-halloween-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/10\/zombie-halloween-costumes.html","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The great thing<\/strong> about the persistently growing zombie fad is that anyone &#8212; at any point during their day, regardless of their activity &#8212; can be turned into a zombie and therefore find themselves stuck in that outfit for the rest of their undead lives. Thus, our costumes for 2011: <em>Zombie Businessman<\/em> (me) and <em>Zombie Triathlete<\/em> (him).<\/p>\n<p>We briefly considered <em>Zombie Pharmacist<\/em> and <em>Zombie Fly Fisherman<\/em> but those seemed too conventional.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, my 6th-grade daughter didn&#8217;t want to dress up, zombified or otherwise, this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/images.instagram.com\/media\/2011\/10\/30\/ac6005e0033611e1b0a81231381b5470_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great thing about the persistently growing zombie fad is that anyone &#8212; at any point during their day, regardless of their activity &#8212; can be turned into a zombie and therefore find themselves stuck in that outfit for the rest of their undead lives. 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