{"id":14159,"date":"2012-03-20T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:55:07","slug":"obscura-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14159","title":{"rendered":"Obscura Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/obscuraday-150x150.png\" alt=\"Obscura Day Logo\" title=\"Obscura Day Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Intrepid reader <del datetime=\"2012-03-21T17:53:43+00:00\">Linda<\/del> Frances sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/watson-adventures-art-of-darkness-scavenger-hunt-national-gallery-dc\">Art of Darkness Scavenger Hunt<\/a> taking place in DC next month, commenting that from the title she&#8217;d wondered if I were involved with it.  Sadly I am not, but I&#8217;m thrilled silly to find out about it.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that this event is only one of many worldwide.  <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/\">Obscura Day<\/a> takes place on April 28 and is organized by the people behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>.  It is, &#8220;an international celebration of unusual places&#8230;.a day of expeditions, back room tours, &#038; exploring hidden wonders in your own hometown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Planned events so far range from the scavenger hunt in DC (exploring &#8220;strange and ominous&#8221; artworks at the National Gallery) to a <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/street-art-graffiti-workshop-tour\">tour of street art<\/a> in Berlin; a <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/bound-to-end-badly-boston-athenaeum\">discussion of rare books<\/a> in Boston (entitled, wonderfully, &#8220;Bound to End Badly&#8221;); a <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/the-clockwork-salon\">look at automata<\/a> in Forres, Scotland; and a <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/pickled-museum-of-human-disease\">discussion of tissue preservation<\/a> (called &#8220;Pickled People&#8221;) at the Museum of Human Disease in Kensington, Australia.  <del datetime=\"2012-03-21T17:53:43+00:00\">Linda<\/del> Frances herself is organizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/obscuraday.com\/events\/evening-in-jail-old-jail\">Evening in Jail<\/a> event in Warrenton, VA.<\/p>\n<p>The site has a search feature and map of events so you can find stuff in your area, and if there&#8217;s nothing near you they can help you plan something of your own.  If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to lead a ghost walk around your city or organize a tour of the local funerary museum, here&#8217;s your opportunity.  (Incidentally, they&#8217;re also asking for photographers to help document all of the events, so if you don&#8217;t want to gin up your own event you can volunteer to attend one and take pictures.)<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, <del datetime=\"2012-03-21T17:53:43+00:00\">Linda<\/del> Frances!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Edited to Add:<\/b> I swear I was completely sober when I wrote this, yet I managed to misattribute the submitter throughout.  I blame the elves.  (Sorry, <b>Frances<\/b>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid reader Linda Frances sent me a link to the Art of Darkness Scavenger Hunt taking place in DC next month, commenting that from the title she&#8217;d wondered if I were involved with it. Sadly I am not, but I&#8217;m thrilled silly to find out about it. It turns out that this event is only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","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=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14220,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}