{"id":12747,"date":"2009-10-15T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:41","slug":"carve-out-time-for-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/inspiration\/carve-out-time-for-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Carve out Time for Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-597\" title=\"pumpkin\" alt=\"pumpkin\" src=\"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pumpkin.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"105\" \/><br \/>\nI admit Halloween has gotten too crazed and too commercial.<\/p>\n<p>All the candy fueled hoopla and rush to find the perfect costume often gives me a \u201cwhopper\u201d of a headache.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can manage past all that, there\u2019s also a positive side.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween is a terrific time for kids (of all ages) to tap into our creativity\u00a0and get inspired by all the magical, mystical things around us.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudsonvalley.org\/content\/view\/195\/198\/\">The Great Jack O&#8217; Lantern Blaze <\/a><\/strong>at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton on Hudson, Westchester.<\/p>\n<p>(Under an hour from Manhattan by train).<\/p>\n<p><!--more Keep reading \u00bb --><\/p>\n<p>This amazing spectacle (over 5-years running) features over 4,000 individually carved and illuminated jack o&#8217; lanterns placed in an idyllic\u00a018th century riverside estate.<\/p>\n<p>There are underwater garden pumpkins, spaceships and aliens, dinosaurs- every form imaginable\u2026.and quite possibly that you never imagined.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer beauty, variety, and creativity of all these blazing jack o&#8217; lanterns arranged in unusual combinations and configurations- and all in one place will take your breath away.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps inspire your own carving\u2026and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your twist?<\/p>\n<p>How do you get your creative juices flowing this Halloween?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/HealthCheckQualification\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"strategy-graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/brandtwist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/strategy-graphic.gif\" width=\"330\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit Halloween has gotten too crazed and too commercial. All the candy fueled hoopla and rush to find the perfect costume often gives me a \u201cwhopper\u201d of a headache. But if you can manage past all that, there\u2019s also a positive side. Halloween is a terrific time for kids (of all ages) to tap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,93,63,37],"tags":[40,41,60,42,45,74,80,115,116,117,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-12747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creativity","7":"category-holidays-2","8":"category-innovation","9":"category-inspiration","10":"tag-brand","11":"tag-brand-building","12":"tag-brand-school","13":"tag-branding","14":"tag-brandtwist","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-business-building","17":"tag-creativity-2","18":"tag-halloween","19":"tag-inspiration-2","20":"tag-julie-cottineau"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16627,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions\/16627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}