{"id":784,"date":"2020-10-19T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=784"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:38:55","slug":"supervised-halloween-hunt-to-replace-usual-trick-or-treating-this-oct-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2020\/10\/19\/supervised-halloween-hunt-to-replace-usual-trick-or-treating-this-oct-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervised &#8216;Halloween Hunt&#8217; to replace usual &#8216;trick-or-treating&#8217; this Oct. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Eman Taha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Halloween at the American University of Sharjah will be different this year, the university announcing new guidelines Oct. 18 to promote safer trick-or-treating during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epicenter staff announced in an email new precautions to campus residents to promote safety during the Halloween festivities, including a prohibition of door-to-door trick-or-treating. Instead, trick-or-treaters should follow a planned-out route (a \u201cHalloween Hunt\u201d) with hidden surprises along the way. Indoor gatherings, parties or haunted houses of any kind are also prohibited.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To avoid overcrowding, each residential housing area is assigned a time slot for the Halloween Hunt, and \u201csocial distancing monitors [will] oversee the treat distribution from both East and West housing areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Face masks must be worn in public settings and during the Halloween Hunt, and the Epicenter email made clear that \u201ca costume mask is not a substitute for a cloth mask.\u201d Epicenter staff are also planning a \u201cDesign a Halloween Face Mask Competition.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS staff are also advising all residents to stay home for Halloween if experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eman Taha UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Halloween at the American University of Sharjah will be different this year, the university announcing new guidelines Oct. 18 to promote safer trick-or-treating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Epicenter staff announced in an email new precautions to campus residents to promote safety during the Halloween festivities, including a prohibition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}