{"id":26165,"date":"2015-11-06T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=26165"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:18:18","slug":"chitty-chitty-link-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=26165","title":{"rendered":"Chitty-Chitty Link Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/ca\/listing\/248025071\/sale-pdf-crochet-tiger-scarf-pattern?ref=shop_home_active_1\">Crocheted Hobbes Scarf<\/a> &#8211; Etsy pattern for a scarf &#8220;inspired by&#8221; Calvin&#8217;s stuffed tiger.  If you&#8217;d like to keep a friendly tiger close at hand, a scarf seems like a good choice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/263087494832\/videos\/10153351164519833\/?fref=nf\">Peacock Spider Costume<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t like to post Facebook-only stuff, but I can&#8217;t find the video anywhere else and it&#8217;s too delightful to not share.  An entomologist shows off his Halloween costume. <i>(via pdq)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sugarandcharm.com\/2015\/09\/how-to-marble-candy-apples.html\/\">Marbled Candy Apples<\/a> &#8211; Instructions for making candied apples with an attractive swirly candy coating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruffledblog.com\/dracula-inspired-halloween-wedding\/\">Dracula-Inspired Halloween Wedding<\/a> &#8211; I like this.  It&#8217;s all refined and elegant and then you hit the drag queen dressed as Frank N. Furter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ravensbrew.com\/\">Raven&#8217;s Brew Coffee<\/a> &#8211; Sells coffee with neat labels and fanciful titles like <a href=\"http:\/\/ravensbrew.com\/dmr.html\">Deadman&#8217;s Reach<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ravensbrew.com\/wolf.html\">Wicked Wolf<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ravensbrew.com\/goat.html\">Three Peckered Billy Goat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GLN_mAxlB28\">Our Announcement<\/a> &#8211; Amusing baby announcement done in the style of a horror movie trailer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003URC5US\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;creativeASIN=B003URC5US&#038;linkCode=as2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Witchcraft Magic: An Adventure In Demonology<\/a> &#8211; Holy carp you guys; did you know that Vincent Price recorded a whole album devoted to witchcraft and demonology?  It&#8217;s available as an MP3 on Amazon.  Dangerous Minds discusses it <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/vincent_price_teaches_the_dark_arts_on_his_1969_album_an_adventure_in_demon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/the-scariest-story-ever-told\">The Scariest Story Ever Told<\/a> &#8211; Spoooooooky. <i>(Hat tip to Bruno)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xhS_CjECO90\">Reverse Trick-or-Treating<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve seen this gag before, but it cracks me up every time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/art\/Jerusalem-Cricket-330794826\">Crocheted Jerusalem Cricket<\/a> &#8211; People in the western half of the U.S. should be familiar with these Geiger-esque critters; this crocheted version should be easier to cuddle without worrying about the ouchy mandibles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crocheted Hobbes Scarf &#8211; Etsy pattern for a scarf &#8220;inspired by&#8221; Calvin&#8217;s stuffed tiger. If you&#8217;d like to keep a friendly tiger close at hand, a scarf seems like a good choice. Peacock Spider Costume &#8211; I don&#8217;t like to post Facebook-only stuff, but I can&#8217;t find the video anywhere else and it&#8217;s too delightful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165","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=26165"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26281,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26165\/revisions\/26281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}