{"id":18703,"date":"2013-07-23T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18703"},"modified":"2013-08-02T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:01:32","slug":"super-terrific-giveaway-thing-vivo-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18703","title":{"rendered":"Super-Terrific Giveaway Thing: VIVO Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vivomask-e1374062836891-150x107.jpg\" alt=\"Vivo Mask\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Boy, I love it when people offer to give my readers free stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Josh from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/\">VIVO Masks<\/a> recently dropped me a line about their products: They&#8217;re a retailer of authentic Venetian masquerade masks, hand-crafted (authentically) in Venice, Italy.  And holy moly, they have some <em>amazing<\/em> stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Their masks range from the familiar multicolored carnival masks, through Goblin King-esque masquerade pieces, to leather-and-spiked &#8220;erotic&#8221; selections.  I&#8217;m particularly impressed with their laser-cut metal masks, like this delicate little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/products\/pipistrello-strass\">bat<\/a> and this neat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/products\/teschio-black\">skull<\/a>.  They even have a long-nosed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/products\/naso-peste-cera\">plague doctor<\/a>; not to mention completely astonishing confections like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/products\/magnificient-duchessa\">this<\/a>.  The site also has a blog with costume suggestions to accompany their masks, plus lots of party ideas.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;they are offering a free mask to one lucky commenter!  Whee!<\/p>\n<p>The winner can choose any mask in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivomasks.com\/collections\/less-than-50\">Under $50<\/a> section.  They will ship free anywhere in the U.S.; if you&#8217;re overseas and would like to play you may do so, but you&#8217;ll have to pay for shipping (which according to their site will be $25).<\/p>\n<p>To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post by Friday, August 2 about which mask you might choose if you win.  One commenter will be chosen at random.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/randomnum.jpg\" alt=\"random.org Results\" width=\"164\" height=\"194\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><b>Update:<\/b> The contest is over, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.random.org\/\">random.org<\/a> returned the magic number 4, which means Sisifo wins the mask!  (Note that since some people commented more than once or commented but didn&#8217;t wish to be included in the contest, this number is based on individual commenters, not comment number).<\/p>\n<p>I shall email her with details forthwith.  Thanks to everyone who played along!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, I love it when people offer to give my readers free stuff. Josh from VIVO Masks recently dropped me a line about their products: They&#8217;re a retailer of authentic Venetian masquerade masks, hand-crafted (authentically) in Venice, Italy. And holy moly, they have some amazing stuff. Their masks range from the familiar multicolored carnival masks, [&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-18703","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\/18703","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=18703"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19432,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18703\/revisions\/19432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}