{"id":27650,"date":"2016-05-05T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27650"},"modified":"2016-05-05T06:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:32:10","slug":"world-dracula-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27650","title":{"rendered":"World Dracula Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/worlddraculaday-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"World Dracula Day\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>May 26 is the original publication date for <i>Dracula<\/i>, and there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldDraculaDay\/timeline\">Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worlddraculaday\">Twitter feed<\/a> set up to celebrate the upcoming anniversary.  (The website linked on the FB page just goes to a generic placeholder.)  The event doesn&#8217;t seem to have gained much traction online, but last year The Vampire Historian did a special <a href=\"https:\/\/thevampirehistorian.com\/2015\/05\/27\/world-dracula-day-mini-sode\/\">mini-sode<\/a> and there were scattered mentions on history and literature sites.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time to plan a party, or at least a get-together with a few friends.  There are loads of thematic recipes and party ideas&#8211;one thing the internet is <em>not<\/em> short on is vampires&#8211;and a search for &#8220;vampire dinner party&#8221; turns up suggestions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/holidays-and-parties\/photos\/bite-night-how-to-throw-a-vampire-themed-party.html\">Food Network<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/food\/Vampire-Party-Menu-Recipes-5743808\">PopSugar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyou.com\/food\/celebrations\/halloween-vampire-party\">AllYou<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hwtm.com\/2010\/10\/vampire-halloween-dinner-party\/\">Hostess with the Mostess<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notquitenigella.com\/2011\/09\/07\/true-blood-dinner-party\/\">Not Quite Nigella<\/a>, and that&#8217;s just the first page of results.<\/p>\n<p>For something a little less involved, just invite a few friends over for a vampire movie marathon and order a pizza with extra garlic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26 is the original publication date for Dracula, and there&#8217;s a Facebook page and Twitter feed set up to celebrate the upcoming anniversary. (The website linked on the FB page just goes to a generic placeholder.) The event doesn&#8217;t seem to have gained much traction online, but last year The Vampire Historian did a [&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-27650","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\/27650","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=27650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27678,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27650\/revisions\/27678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}