{"id":17524,"date":"2013-02-14T06:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:52:22","slug":"sideshow-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17524","title":{"rendered":"Sideshow World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sideshowworld-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sideshow World\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Oh wow you guys: Intrepid reader Cookie has found the motherlode of information related to carnival sideshows.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sideshowworld.com\/\">Sideshow World<\/a> is &#8220;dedicated to preserving the past while promoting the future of sideshow for fans and performers alike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their historical section covers all the old standbys: Feejee mermaids and flea circuses and medicine shows and fortune-tellers and loads more, copiously peppered with vintage photos and artwork.  They also have a useful &#8220;Ask the Staff&#8221; page where you can get help identifying photos or request information about sideshow acts of the past.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;re discussions of carnival games and photos of taxidermied &#8220;freaks of nature.&#8221;  Recipes for midway-style corn dogs and descriptions of various types of conjoined twins.  Sword swallowers and tattooed ladies and dime museums and snake oil.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also got a large section devoted to modern sideshows, with performer bios, event listings, and heaps of links to related resources.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever considered a carnival-themed party, needed reference photos for sculpting a shrunken head, or wanted to frame some vintage midway posters, this is the place to look.  Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, Cookie!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh wow you guys: Intrepid reader Cookie has found the motherlode of information related to carnival sideshows. Sideshow World is &#8220;dedicated to preserving the past while promoting the future of sideshow for fans and performers alike.&#8221; Their historical section covers all the old standbys: Feejee mermaids and flea circuses and medicine shows and fortune-tellers and [&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-17524","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\/17524","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=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}