{"id":9551,"date":"2018-10-17T11:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=9551"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:46:29","slug":"fall-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2018\/10\/17\/fall-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every season has fun activities that people associate with it and they look forward to doing these activities when the season gets closer. \u00a0The activities tend to vary based on where you live because the weather tends to dictate what activities are doable. It in the Midwest activities for summer are going to the beach and playing in a pool, for winter it\u2019s sledding and building snowmen and having a fire indoors, for spring it\u2019s being able to not wear winter coats and walking outside again, and for fall it\u2019s pumpkin carving and sweater weather. \u00a0Fall has a range of activities that people look forward to based on their interests in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of fall activities rely around Halloween, because Halloween is the main event that happens during the season. \u00a0Some Halloween fall related activities include haunted houses, trick or treating, and Halloween parades. These activities are directly related to Halloween, but a lot of other fall activities are associated with Halloween even though they are not directly related to it. \u00a0Some of these activities include pumpkin picking, apple orchards, and corn mazes. While carving pumpkins is a specific Halloween activity, going pumpkin picking is not. These activities get lumped into the same category because they happen around the same time because November might be too cold to do them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other fall activities are not related to Halloween, but are related to being back to school. \u00a0The main thing that this includes is football season. Fall is the season for high school, college, and professional football. \u00a0While professional football continues into the winter, high school and college generally do not. This means that for a lot of people across America, the leaves changing colors means football seasons and Saturdays being taken over by tailgates and football games. \u00a0This is especially true at the University of Michigan. Game day is the most popular day of the week for the entirety of football season (a.k.a. fall).<\/span><\/p>\n

Fall also means seasonal retail items, mostly pumpkin flavored things. \u00a0Only in the fall can one find pumpkin bread and pie at the grocery store, and a pumpkin latte at Starbucks. \u00a0This is when people go overboard of consuming their favorite fall themed things, not only food. Fall scented candles and decorations with leaves and acorns on them also increase because they reflect the weather.<\/span><\/p>\n

This happens with each season, fall is just particularly noticeable because people associate so many things with this one season unlike the others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every season has fun activities that people associate with it and they look forward to doing these activities when the season gets closer. \u00a0The activities tend to vary based on where you live because the weather tends to dictate what activities are doable. It in the Midwest activities for summer are going to the beach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":9552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[776,475,1171,412,1172,1173,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9553,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions\/9553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}