{"id":2098,"date":"2016-10-02T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2016-10-02T07:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T14:47:50","slug":"inside-hogwarts-whats-on-the-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2016\/10\/inside-hogwarts-whats-on-the-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Hogwarts\u2014What&#8217;s On the Porch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to providing a front yard scene where visitors can interact with costumed characters, we also like to give people the sense that they are going\u00a0<strong>into<\/strong> the environment. \u00a0We utilize our porch to help us with this aspect of the Albertson Halloween House.<\/p>\n<p>The porch is where visitors get their themed treats, glow necklaces and\u00a0other goodies. \u00a0Instead of it just being a regular looking porch, however, it gets in on the Halloween fun and dresses up for the occasion. \u00a0In the past, when visitors walked through the gaping jaws of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2010\/11\/fish-folks-and-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce the Shark<\/a><\/strong> for our Finding Nemo theme, they found themselves in Bruce&#8217;s stomach. Another year, the porch was transformed into the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2013\/11\/a-magical-evening\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enchanted Tiki Room<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Another year, it was inside the palace of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2015\/11\/a-wonderful-evening-in-oz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald City<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we want visitors to feel like they can actually enter into Hogwarts as they get their treats, so we have a few special things planned for the porch. \u00a0Below is a sketch of our thoughts, including some very special Hogwarts treasures and memorable features.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2097\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch.jpg\"  alt=\"2016 Inside Hogwarts\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_05_Porch-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a>Can you identify all of the items?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to providing a front yard scene where visitors can interact with costumed characters, we also like to give people the sense that they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[9,19,31,132,133,52,30,140,10],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-house","tag-concept","tag-design","tag-halloween","tag-harry-potter","tag-hogwarts","tag-house","tag-how-to-make","tag-porch","tag-sketch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}