{"id":1327,"date":"2022-10-07T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T23:15:50","slug":"how-old-is-too-old-to-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/1327\/opinions\/how-old-is-too-old-to-trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"When are You Too Old to Trick-or-Treat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s be real here: once you turn 14, you\u2019re too old to trick-or-treat. There\u2019s no doubt that at some point, trick-or-treating at a certain age gets awkward for you and the people around you. You\u2019re going to find yourself among middle and elementary schoolers and toddlers\u2026 and with them, their parents. Not to mention that you may get a few glances from the people who hand you candy&#8211;a high schooler who still trick-or-treats, especially on a school night? Though you may not be working a job at 14, you\u2019ll be able to within the next 1 or 2 years; you can easily buy your own candy then. There\u2019s not much of a reason to take candy that is meant for younger kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maturity and age aside, there are just better things to do once you\u2019re 14 for Halloween. Passing out candy or helping out with decorations are great ways to be still involved in Halloween traditions. Hanging out with friends and doing something fun together beats walking around in the cold any day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, we all want to have fun sometimes. So if you\u2019re going trick-or-treating this year, that&#8217;s fine. Just definitely stop when you\u2019re 18.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s be real here: once you turn 14, you\u2019re too old to trick-or-treat. There\u2019s no doubt that at some point, trick-or-treating at a certain age gets awkward for you and the people around you. You\u2019re going to find yourself among middle and elementary schoolers and toddlers\u2026 and with them, their parents. Not to mention that&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122],"staff_name":[40],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-october-22","staff_name-olivia-zhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}