{"id":22914,"date":"2015-02-05T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22914"},"modified":"2015-02-05T07:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T12:10:45","slug":"pet-ghost-in-a-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22914","title":{"rendered":"Pet Ghost in a Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/petghost-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pet Ghost\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>A couple of Halloweens ago, Hallmark released a trio of novelty &#8220;Pet Ghosts:&#8221; Jars which used the Pepper&#8217;s Ghost stage illusion to make a little spectre appear when a button on top was pressed.  There were three, Julian Hijinks, Genevieve Ruffles, and Maxwell McSpooky, and a label on the back described their personalities.  You can see one in action <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5953348\/how-the-my-pet-ghost-toy-works\">here<\/a>, and see closeup photos of the front and back of Maxwell&#8217;s jar <a href=\"http:\/\/s678.photobucket.com\/user\/dextire\/media\/Halloween%20Goodies\/2012\/pet-ghost-3.jpg.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/s678.photobucket.com\/user\/dextire\/media\/Halloween%20Goodies\/2012\/pet-ghost-2.jpg.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They were cute, but they were also ten bucks apiece (and since they were discontinued they&#8217;re more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hallmark-Halloween-HGN5022-Genevieve-Ruffles\/dp\/B008MYT674\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1422394227&#038;sr=8-1\">$25<\/a>).  Although not quite as elaborate, the PennyWise blog has a very cute <a href=\"http:\/\/pennywiseblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/pet-ghost-in-jar.html\">DIY version<\/a> which is a lot cheaper and easy to customize.  I like his little beady eyes.<\/p>\n<p>If you wanted to get fancy, you could use the same fluffy ghost to create a real Pepper&#8217;s Ghost.  Googling &#8220;miniature pepper&#8217;s ghost&#8221; turns up several fairly straightforward tutorials: <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/projects\/diy-hacks-how-tos-the-peppers-ghost-illusion\/\">Make<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chestofbooks.com\/crafts\/popular-mechanics\/The-Boy-Mechanic-700-Things-for-Boys-to-Do\/A-Miniature-Pepper-s-Ghost-Illusion.html#.VMgKayznn44\">Chest of Books<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormthecastle.com\/diorama\/peppers-ghost-box.htm\">Diorama Man<\/a> are all good examples.<\/p>\n<p>This is a cute, easy novelty that&#8217;d look nice perched on a shelf or as a desk accessory.  Everybody needs a pet ghost of their very own.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of Halloweens ago, Hallmark released a trio of novelty &#8220;Pet Ghosts:&#8221; Jars which used the Pepper&#8217;s Ghost stage illusion to make a little spectre appear when a button on top was pressed. There were three, Julian Hijinks, Genevieve Ruffles, and Maxwell McSpooky, and a label on the back described their personalities. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22914","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=22914"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24139,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22914\/revisions\/24139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}