{"id":1379,"date":"2008-10-02T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2008-10-02T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T13:45:33","slug":"this-is-creepy-on-so-many-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"This is Creepy on So Many Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KnitThe winner, Grand Champion Division, for Knitted Thing I Would Never Even Think<\/EM> of Making into a Knitted Thing, goes to the Anticraft for their knitted teratoma.<\/p>\n

They even include instructions for making the random body parts–such as teeth and eyeballs–that are occasionally found inside of a real teratoma<\/a>. Also listed are several songs appropriate for singing to one’s knitted teratoma. Like you do.<\/p>\n

I’m a teratoma, short and stout;
\nHere is my handle, here is my snout;
\nWhen I get all steamed up and I shout,
\nPoke a finger in and pull stuff out!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I happen to sport a very large scar received from the removal of a teratoma.* If I’d had this pattern then, I’d have been tempted to make one as a gift for my doctor. Now all I can do is sit slack-jawed with amazement.<\/p>\n

Link<\/a> (via William the Coroner<\/a>)<\/I>
\n

\n*The strangest look I have ever received from anybody<\/EM> came from my surgeon, when she explained the procedure and asked me if I had any questions. I said, “If this thing has teeth, can I have them?” Her reaction indicated that she had never been asked that question before, ever. I was serious, though. Wouldn’t that be a great<\/EM> icebreaker at cocktail parties? “Hi, I’m Cobwebs. You’ll never believe<\/EM> where these teeth came from.” But I digress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The winner, Grand Champion Division, for Knitted Thing I Would Never Even Think of Making into a Knitted Thing, goes to the Anticraft for their knitted teratoma. They even include instructions for making the random body parts–such as teeth and eyeballs–that are occasionally found inside of a real teratoma. Also listed are several songs appropriate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20177,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/20177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}