{"id":15406,"date":"2012-07-11T06:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2012-07-02T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T13:44:02","slug":"the-curio-emporium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15406","title":{"rendered":"The Curio Emporium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/corset.jpg\" alt=\"Corset\" title=\"Corset\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>One of the wonderful things about the Internet is the freedom it gives niche businesses to reach a wider audience.  A company peddling the odd collection of goods found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/\">The Curio Emporium<\/a> might not have enough appreciative customers locally to buy their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/product_p\/nili03.htm\">coyote skull nightlights<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/Brass_Telescope_league_of_steam_p\/stga04.htm\">brass telescopes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/product_p\/para01.htm\">Gorey parasols<\/a>, and that would be a great pity.<\/p>\n<p>Their stuff is wonderfully eclectic, ranging from taxidermy to corsets (I&#8217;m particularly taken with their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/product_p\/cor09.htm\">Ripper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/product_p\/cor02.htm\">Halloween<\/a> models), and their prices seem quite competetive.  They do ship worldwide (with the usual exception of natural\/taxidermy items), and their &#8220;free shipping&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecurioemporium.com\/articles.asp?ID=57\">policy<\/a> doesn&#8217;t appear to have a geographical limitation.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an especially unique gift, or just want to drool on the merchandise, this is the place for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wonderful things about the Internet is the freedom it gives niche businesses to reach a wider audience. A company peddling the odd collection of goods found at The Curio Emporium might not have enough appreciative customers locally to buy their coyote skull nightlights, brass telescopes, and Gorey parasols, and that would be [&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-15406","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\/15406","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=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15427,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}