{"id":18111,"date":"2021-10-05T21:27:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=18111"},"modified":"2021-10-05T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:27:46","slug":"spoofy-silly-staff-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/spoofy-silly-staff-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoofy, silly, staff stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Howl staff shares some of their funny fall tales<\/em><\/p>\n

The Western Howl Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n

October brings a holiday that many love to celebrate \u2014 Halloween. The month is filled with an assortment of spooky things \u2014 from movie marathons to quirky decorations to themed foods; nevertheless, no holiday is complete without its share of funny stories. Check out these howl-ingly funny tales from \u201cThe Western Howl\u201d staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Cora McClain <\/b>| Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing up, I had a relatively rich friend and trick-or-treating in her neighborhood was always the best. Four words: king sized candy bars. I would do anything for those candy bars, even trip over my own two feet, scraping up my knees and bleeding all over my costume\u2026 At least I got my king sized cookies and cream Hershey’s bar along with anxiety-inducing embarrassment. They don\u2019t call it trick-or-treating for nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Rylie Horrall<\/b> | Managing Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

A year or two ago, my mom and I were watching a scary movie. We do that every year and it\u2019s become a fun tradition for us when I\u2019m home around the holiday. Anyway, it was a very tense scene, we\u2019re completely immersed with the lights off, the character on the screen was heading up to what\u2019s probably a jumpscare so we\u2019re leaning in. And then my brother comes around the corner and says \u201cHow\u2019s the movie?\u201d I screamed. Mom screamed. He yelped. Long story short, my brother is now extra cautious when he walks into the living room when something scary is on.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Stephanie Moschella <\/b>| Digital Media Manager<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Halloween my friends and I played \u201cLittle Hope\u201d \u2014 well it was more like they played and I watched. I had already played this video game before, but I wanted to see how my friends and roommates fared. Well, long story short, I fell asleep about halfway through them playing the game. I was on one of the couches and my back was turned against the TV, but that didn\u2019t stop any of them from screaming or yelling out loud. But it was fine since I got a pretty good nap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Mikayla Coleman<\/b> | News Editor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I grew up playing hours and hours of \u201cLEGO Star Wars\u201d with my dad on his Xbox 360. To earn the respect of my father, I decided to dress up as a stormtrooper for Halloween. My dad and Iwalked into Target, and there it was, the iconic costume, hanging halfway off the hanger in the little boys section. I was so excited, I didn\u2019t bother to look at the tags.<\/span><\/p>\n

It sat in the closet until the infamous day rolled around. I was psyched. I put the costume on and was sitting there thinking, \u201cOh, this is uncomfortable. This can\u2019t be right.\u201d But I begrudgingly went out on my trick-or-treating adventure around the neighborhood, feeling wedgied as all h–l, taking weird clomping steps up and down the sidewalk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u00a0 took me a couple of years to understand that there was a cup in the crotch of my costume because it was made for little boys. RIP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sarah Austin <\/b>| Lifestyle Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year as September comes to an end, I make plans with my friends to go to a corn maze. It\u2019s my favorite activity because we all go in and they think it will be cute and fun, but I like to add a twist. Yes, it’s me; that person running through the maze making creepy laughing noises or hiding to scare people. Even in the daylight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Howl staff shares some of their funny fall tales<\/p>\n

The Western Howl Collective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":18095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[248,1181,175,1182,447],"class_list":["post-18111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-stories","tag-humor","tag-staff-stories","tag-the-western-howl-collective"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}