{"id":20411,"date":"2013-12-04T06:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20411"},"modified":"2013-12-04T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T12:33:15","slug":"the-oddities-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20411","title":{"rendered":"The Oddities Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/twinrats-150x115.jpg\" alt=\"Taxidermied Two-Headed Rat\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>You&#8217;d better clear your calendar before clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/theodditiesblog.tumblr.com\/\">this link<\/a> because you&#8217;re going to be browsing for a while.<\/p>\n<p>With a tagline of &#8220;Stay weird,&#8221; The Oddities Blog&#8217;s purpose is &#8220;to celebrate the weird and wild eccentricities throughout history.&#8221;  It&#8217;s part medical curiosities in the vein of the M\u00fctter Museum, part historical peculiarities, and part your crazy aunt&#8217;s attic.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is this material fascinating for its own sake, much of it is a fantastic source of inspiration for art or props.  There&#8217;s a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/theodditiesblog.tumblr.com\/post\/35534358881\/featherandmoss-miniature-curiosity-collection\">miniature curiosity collection<\/a> which would be an amazing display piece or gift; it&#8217;d be fun to browse antique shops and thrift stores for treasures to display.  There are lots of vintage medical illustrations and unusual woodcuts like <a href=\"http:\/\/theodditiesblog.tumblr.com\/post\/24776203975\/xo-skeleton-the-nuremberg-chronicles-dog-head\">this leaf<\/a> from <i>The Nuremberg Chronicle<\/i> which would be great as part of a collage or scrapbook.  And there are historical oddities like the relic which is purported to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/theodditiesblog.tumblr.com\/post\/59840295512\/unexplained-events-relic-of-first-recorded\">head of a possessed nun<\/a>; a prop version would be a marvelous addition to a <i>wunderkammer<\/i>, particularly if you rigged it so that the eyes would occasionally glow red.<\/p>\n<p>Note that a few of the images are technically NSFW, and more than a few are kind of squicky, so browse accordingly.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to pdq)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d better clear your calendar before clicking this link because you&#8217;re going to be browsing for a while. With a tagline of &#8220;Stay weird,&#8221; The Oddities Blog&#8217;s purpose is &#8220;to celebrate the weird and wild eccentricities throughout history.&#8221; It&#8217;s part medical curiosities in the vein of the M\u00fctter Museum, part historical peculiarities, and part your [&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-20411","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\/20411","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=20411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20484,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions\/20484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}