{"id":1495,"date":"2009-12-28T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2009-12-29T09:17:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T13:17:39","slug":"hallowine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Hallowine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/trueblood-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"TrueBlood Wine\" title=\"TrueBlood Wine\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The fabulous Empress Pam recently sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedwinesonline.com\/home.php?cat=258\">Wicked Wines<\/a> site; it used to be just Vampire Wine, but they&#8217;ve branched out considerably since the last time I looked.  Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedwinesonline.com\/product.php?productid=16352&#038;cat=258&#038;page=1\">TrueBlood<\/a> Syrah would make a nice centerpiece for a spooky gift basket.<\/p>\n<p>Start with a little coffin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushindaisies.com\/candypress\/Scripts\/prodView.asp?idproduct=232\">Pushin&#8217; Daisies<\/a> sells inexpensive cardboard coffins in a variety of sizes.  You could also scale up a papercraft pattern such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Small_Papercraft_Coffin_and_Headstone_Desk_Ornamen\/\">this one<\/a> and fold your own.  If you&#8217;re really dedicated, make one out of wood (check out the awesome wine coffins that <a href=\"http:\/\/smg.photobucket.com\/albums\/v237\/Wormyt\/Coffin%20wine%20holder\/\">WormyT<\/a> did a while back).<\/p>\n<p>Line the coffin with scarlet tissue paper, add the bottle of wine, then tuck nibbles around the sides: A sharp cheddar or creamy gouda cheese; some crackers; a bar of dark chocolate, and some spicy pumpkin cookies.  Fill any empty spots with plastic spiders.  Enjoy by a crackling fire with an appreciative loved one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous Empress Pam recently sent me a link to the Wicked Wines site; it used to be just Vampire Wine, but they&#8217;ve branched out considerably since the last time I looked. Their TrueBlood Syrah would make a nice centerpiece for a spooky gift basket. Start with a little coffin: Pushin&#8217; Daisies sells inexpensive cardboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","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=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}