{"id":9968,"date":"2026-10-26T00:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:27:46","slug":"vic-vacs-pumpkin-headache-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/vic-vacs-pumpkin-headache-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Vic Vac&#8217;s Pumpkin Headache Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9970\" class=\"img-caption thumbnail alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" zoooom wp-image-9970 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Pumpkin-Headache-Ball-10-29-67-883x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"883\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Pumpkin-Headache-Ball-10-29-67-883x1024.jpg 883w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Pumpkin-Headache-Ball-10-29-67-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Pumpkin-Headache-Ball-10-29-67-768x890.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vic-Vac-Pumpkin-Headache-Ball-10-29-67.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><div class=\"caption\"><p>Original Caption: &#8220;Halloween is many things to many people. To the kids in masks and grotesque costumes it is a night of adventure, a night to gather sacks of candy, fruits and other loot. But to those who are the victims of traditional annoyances and harmful pranks, the night can be a headache. It is this aspect of Halloween that Globe-Democrat chief artist Victor Vaccarezza, who signs his incomparable cartoons Vic Vac, has trenchantly depicted in his cover painting&#8211;a witch smashing the serenity of Halloween with a pumpkin headache ball.&#8221; If you look closely at the pumpkin&#8217;s eyes, you&#8217;ll see some faint sparks. An owl flies out in front of the Jack-O-Lantern, and three little tuxedo cats lead the headache parade. Keep watching the Catblog for another Vic Vac creation before Halloween! Mark<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childhood-nostalgia","category-st-louis-comics-history","comment-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsthecat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}