{"id":534,"date":"2009-03-15T23:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2014-08-20T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:50:51","slug":"its-all-fun-and-games-until-dave-thinks-hes-going-to-die-and-other-scary-pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Fun and Games Until Dave Thinks He&#8217;s Going to Die (and Other Scary Pranks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-539 \" title=\"prankondave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prankondave1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prankondave1.jpg 307w, https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prankondave1-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prankondave1-80x150.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spooky Marion&#8217;s Josh Simpkins standing over his buddy Bill Russell after having just &#8220;murdered&#8221; him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting in my friend Bill\u2019s pitch-black basement on Halloween wearing an old pair of coveralls and a rubber Michael Myers mask. The whole situation is so singularly weird that I\u2019m starting to creep out myself. But then I hear Bill and his younger brother, Dave, stomp up the front porch steps above. Bill unlocks the front door. He tries the light. \u201cThat\u2019s weird,\u201d he says. \u201cThe electric\u2019s off.\u201d Of course there\u2019s no electric. I had popped out the circuit breaker twenty minutes before, just as Bill and I had arranged. If all went according to plan, we would succeed in playing a killer (pun\u00a0 intended) Halloween prank on Bill\u2019s unsuspecting brother.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, people around Marion have been pulling scary pranks on one another, especially around Halloween, for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>To read about this prank and others that have happened over the years in Marion, pick up a copy of <em><span style=\"color: #ed1e24;\"><a title=\"Haunted Marion, Ohio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?page_id=554\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ed1e24;\">Haunted Marion, Ohio<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sitting in my friend Bill\u2019s pitch-black basement on Halloween wearing an old pair of coveralls and a rubber Michael Myers mask. The whole situation is so singularly weird that I\u2019m starting to creep out myself. But then I hear Bill and his younger brother, Dave, stomp up the front porch steps above. Bill unlocks <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/?p=534\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-little-less-serious","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookymarion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}