{"id":27800,"date":"2016-05-26T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27800"},"modified":"2016-05-25T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T00:33:10","slug":"mummified-fairy-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=27800","title":{"rendered":"Mummified Fairy How-To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fairy.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Fairy\" title=\"Dead Fairy\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I mentioned the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=432\">Dead Fairy Hoax<\/a> a while back, opining that something similar might be made using a miniature skeleton as a base.  I finally decided to take a crack at making one, and I have to say that I&#8217;m rather pleased at how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p>The project was much less difficult than I&#8217;d feared; there are a fair number of steps, but each individual one is pretty easy.  (Also, it&#8217;s supposed to be a half-rotted corpse; if you mess something up, how would anybody know?)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to try your hand at something similar, I&#8217;ve posted a tutorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?page_id=4666\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>(This post was first published in October 2009; earning me a spot on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/15\/howto-make-a-mummifi.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> and allowing me to sport a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdmeritbadges.com\/products\/been-boinged\">Been Boinged<\/a> Nerd Merit Badge.  To date, it is my most popular post by a margin almost too wide to measure.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the Dead Fairy Hoax a while back, opining that something similar might be made using a miniature skeleton as a base. I finally decided to take a crack at making one, and I have to say that I&#8217;m rather pleased at how it turned out. The project was much less difficult than I&#8217;d [&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-27800","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\/27800","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=27800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27800\/revisions\/27802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}