{"id":17305,"date":"2013-01-23T06:14:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2013-01-23T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T11:22:17","slug":"600-monsters-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17305","title":{"rendered":"600 Monsters Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/600monster-132x150.jpg\" alt=\"Knit Monster\" width=\"132\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Now here&#8217;s a cause we can get behind: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/600MonstersStrong\">600 Monsters Strong<\/a> is an organization whose stated goal is &#8220;Bringing friendly handcrafted monsters to children in need worldwide.&#8221;  It was formed in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, and they focus on kids whose lives have been marred by gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>They create their monsters from &#8220;approved&#8221; patterns on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/600-monsters-strong-for-connecticut\">Ravelry<\/a> (I guess to prevent confusion over what an appropriately friendly monster might look like), and ship them off to kids in need.  Some of the group&#8217;s completed monsters can be seen on their <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/600monsters\">Instagram<\/a> page.  Those are some mighty huggable monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Giving away monsters to needy kids sounds like a worthy goal to me.  If you don&#8217;t want to get involved with the group at large, a local children&#8217;s hospital or homeless shelter would be very grateful for such a gift.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/\">MAKE<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s a cause we can get behind: 600 Monsters Strong is an organization whose stated goal is &#8220;Bringing friendly handcrafted monsters to children in need worldwide.&#8221; It was formed in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, and they focus on kids whose lives have been marred by gun violence. They create their monsters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","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=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17364,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}