{"id":23462,"date":"2015-02-04T05:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2015-01-27T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T21:27:42","slug":"this-would-be-an-awesome-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23462","title":{"rendered":"This Would be an Awesome Hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/werewolf-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Werewolf Lecture\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24062\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/werewolf-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/werewolf-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/werewolf-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/werewolf.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Self-described (at least according to Google Translate) showman Camille Renversade has a marvelous routine where he dresses in Victorian-esque garb and gives lectures about the anatomy and habits of supernatural creatures.  Last September he gave a presentation on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/camille-renversade.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/quand-on-parle-du-loup.html\">la mal\u00e9diction des loups<\/a>&#8221; at the Lyon Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n<p>From his site, it looks like he does this sort of thing fairly often: He&#8217;s got lecture material and props covering mermaids, dragons, and what may be my favorite version of <a href=\"http:\/\/camille-renversade.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/monstres-marins-et-autres-creatures-des.html\">Nessie<\/a> ever.  Even if you don&#8217;t want to bother with running everything through Translate, his site is definitely worth browsing just for his photos: His presentations involve a whole collection of photos, illustrations, notes, and other supporting documentation.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel like you need an excuse to dress up as a steampunk adventurer and\/or create more props for your cabinet of curiosities, this would be a lot of fun.  Give lectures at museums or libraries, or make it part of your persona for cosplay.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/propnomicon.blogspot.com\/\">Propnomicon<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-described (at least according to Google Translate) showman Camille Renversade has a marvelous routine where he dresses in Victorian-esque garb and gives lectures about the anatomy and habits of supernatural creatures. Last September he gave a presentation on &#8220;la mal\u00e9diction des loups&#8221; at the Lyon Museum of Natural History. From his site, it looks like [&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-23462","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\/23462","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=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24065,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions\/24065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}