{"id":14641,"date":"2012-05-03T06:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14641"},"modified":"2012-04-26T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:49:10","slug":"zombie-experience-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14641","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Experience Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/zombiemall.jpg\" alt=\"Zombie Mall\" title=\"Zombie Mall\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>UK company <a href=\"http:\/\/wish.co.uk\/\">Wish<\/a> specializes in &#8220;life-changing experience days,&#8221; ranging from driving an Aston Martin to hand-feeding lions.  One of the offerings in their Adrenaline category is a chance to battle zombies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to video gaming technology, there is an entire generation whose happiest childhood memories revolve around the wholesale execution of hordes of shuffling, groaning, bitetastic Undead.<\/p>\n<p>We at Wish like to make even the goriest dreams come true, and with our mega-popular Zombie Experiences, guilt-free slaughter has never felt so good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They offer three levels of zombie-battling adventures: An assault on a &#8220;known zombie lair&#8221; (zombies have lairs?), clearing a manor house and its grounds of the walking dead, or&#8211;the most elaborate and expensive&#8211;fighting hordes of zombies in an abandoned shopping mall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how zombies, more than any other popular monster, seem to have spawned an entire industry of LARP-type adventuring: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13548\">zombie survival training course<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=11868\">Run for Your Lives<\/a> charity event spring to mind as well.*<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re in the UK or planning a vacation, this looks like a fun excursion.  Rumor has it that Simon Pegg is going to do the mall experience when he has a chance.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*This makes me just a touch bitter, since I&#8217;ve never found zombies to be particularly interesting.  Where are the Innsmouth raids and the werewolf-tracking classes, dammit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK company Wish specializes in &#8220;life-changing experience days,&#8221; ranging from driving an Aston Martin to hand-feeding lions. One of the offerings in their Adrenaline category is a chance to battle zombies. Thanks to video gaming technology, there is an entire generation whose happiest childhood memories revolve around the wholesale execution of hordes of shuffling, groaning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641","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=14641"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14641\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}