{"id":61948,"date":"2013-10-31T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61948"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:15:41","slug":"mischief-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/mischief-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischief Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/punkinmanlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61950\" alt=\"punkinmanlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/punkinmanlarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/punkinmanlarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/punkinmanlarge-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told a story a month ago, for Halloween, about the terrible pranks that were played in Lake Wobegon just before I came along that I never got to participate in. Things such as pushing over an outhouse when some sterling citizen was in it, tipping it forwards so it fell on the door and the poor man had to crawl out the hole. I never did this. It existed for me only in my uncle\u2019s stories, but the stories were severely edited. So I had to reconstruct what happened when an outhouse was tipped, how it must have felt to the man inside and what a pleasure it must have been to the tipper.\u201d \u2014Garrison Keillor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1551\/the-art-of-humor-no-2-garrison-keillor\" target=\"_blank\">the Art of Humor No. 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI told a story a month ago, for Halloween, about the terrible pranks that were played in Lake Wobegon just before I came along that I never got to participate in. 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