{"id":22032,"date":"2014-06-12T06:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T11:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22032"},"modified":"2014-06-11T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:00:19","slug":"bass-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22032","title":{"rendered":"Bass Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bassdog-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bass Dog\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>This is the sort of thing that I would normally just toss in a link dump, but Jay Bentley determinedly playing a corgi needs a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>After noticing that &#8220;bass players who use their fingers as opposed to a pick look like they\u2019re tickling hairy dogs,&#8221; Michael M decided to make that connection more obvious with poorly-photoshopped dogs.  Thus began <a href=\"http:\/\/bassdogs.tumblr.com\/\">Bass Dogs<\/a>, and it is glorious.<\/p>\n<p>He accepts submissions, but only if they&#8217;re photoshopped; he&#8217;s quite adamant that no one should attempt to play a real dog like a bass.  He apparently will also do requests if you send him a photo, although he says he has a bit of a backlog.  (And yes, he knows that the photoshopping is bad; according to his <a href=\"http:\/\/bassdogs.tumblr.com\/faq\">FAQ<\/a>, he likes that bit the best.)<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are often appropriately-costumed, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bassdogs.tumblr.com\/post\/57177613057\/sting-bass-dog\">bee-suited dachshund being played by Sting<\/a>.  The blog will also occasionally branch out with things like <a href=\"http:\/\/bassdogs.tumblr.com\/post\/57883746442\/saturday-surprise-hey-its-the-weekend\">piano sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is really deeply surreal and also deeply wonderful.  I may never be able to look at a bassist again without giggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of thing that I would normally just toss in a link dump, but Jay Bentley determinedly playing a corgi needs a wider audience. After noticing that &#8220;bass players who use their fingers as opposed to a pick look like they\u2019re tickling hairy dogs,&#8221; Michael M decided to make that connection more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22032","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=22032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22109,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22032\/revisions\/22109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}