{"id":24639,"date":"2015-04-28T05:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:44:31","slug":"a-monster-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24639","title":{"rendered":"A Monster to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/monster-150x141.jpg\" alt=\"Plush Monster\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/amonstertolove.com\/\">A Monster to Love<\/a> is an online shop with a really great deal: For every one of their cute, huggable monsters you buy, they&#8217;ll donate one to a kid in need.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever you buy a monster from A Monster to Love, we give a monster to a child who could really use a monster to love. Sometimes they are children that cannot afford a monster or a child who is in the hospital and could use a friend to hang out and snuggle with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their &#8220;Monster Drops&#8221; partner with children&#8217;s hospitals, shelters, and the World Relief Refugee program to bring a little monstery friendship to children who need it.  Best of all, they&#8217;ve made a free pattern for their monsters available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/monsters-to-love\/\">Craftsy<\/a>.  You can make your own monsters to give to local kids in need, or send them to their Monster HQ in Colorado to be donated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekcrafts.com\/16087-huggable-monster-dolls-for-kids-in-need\/\">Geek Crafts<\/a> has some great suggestions for organizing a Monster Making Party to turn out a whole heap of cuddly monsters.  You can hang out with friends and make the world a slightly less-scary place at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>So, buy a monster from their store&#8211;I&#8217;m partial to the crazy-eyed <i>joie de vivre<\/i> of <a href=\"http:\/\/amonstertolove.com\/monster-shop\/henry-and-theo\">Henry and Theo<\/a>&#8211;and they&#8217;ll make a matching donation.  Or make monsters of your own to give away to local kids (I&#8217;m sure they wouldn&#8217;t mind if you kept one for yourself).  Either way, it&#8217;s a worthy cause.  The monsters all approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Monster to Love is an online shop with a really great deal: For every one of their cute, huggable monsters you buy, they&#8217;ll donate one to a kid in need. Whenever you buy a monster from A Monster to Love, we give a monster to a child who could really use a monster to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639","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=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24653,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions\/24653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}