{"id":28986,"date":"2017-07-28T05:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28986"},"modified":"2017-07-28T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T10:46:56","slug":"a-fine-and-pleasant-link-dump-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28986","title":{"rendered":"A Fine and Pleasant Link Dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gaileyfrey\/status\/887409402071756800\">Santa as Disease Vector<\/a> &#8211; A Twitter thread that asks a question nobody ever thinks about.  (See also the same author&#8217;s thread on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gaileyfrey\/status\/887713528726945792\">making saltwater taffy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/proof-rats-are-the-most-adorable-creatures-ever\/0\/\">Cute Rat Photos<\/a> &#8211; Diane \u00d6zdamar photographs rats looking particularly adorable in an effort to spruce up their negative image.  They are, indeed, adorable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/kza5k3\/sex-with-demons-was-totally-chill-until-the-church-ruined-it\">Sex with Demons Was Totally Chill Until the Church Ruined It<\/a> &#8211; Probably NSFW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ravenmaster1\">@ravenmaster1<\/a> &#8211; The Tower of London&#8217;s Ravenmaster has a Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungryhappenings.com\/2013\/10\/Halloween-recipe-stuffed-pizza-skulls.html\">Stuffed Pizza Skulls<\/a> &#8211; Something else to do with your skull cupcake pans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/07\/pictures-of-death\/534060\/\">Pictures of Death<\/a> &#8211; Article about early postmortem photography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/bat-world-sanctuary\">Donate to Bat World Sanctuary<\/a> &#8211; If the sanctuary out-raises all the other charities in this event, Macy&#8217;s will add $100,000 to their total.  Spare a buck to save a bat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Practice-Greta-Helsing-Novel\/dp\/0316434604\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1501161963&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Strange Practice<\/a> &#8211; A novel concerning Dr. Greta Van Helsing, physician to the supernatural.  The author describes her &#8220;Big Idea&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2017\/07\/26\/the-big-idea-vivian-shaw\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grunge.com\/76069\/bizarre-tales-people-possessed\/\">Most Bizarre Tales of People Being Possessed<\/a> &#8211; A roundup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jbbartram-illu.tumblr.com\/post\/160235958166\/for-the-first-time-ever-im-putting-some-of-my\">Embroidered Moth Soft Sculptures<\/a> &#8211; The artist is selling a few of her embroidered moths.  They&#8217;re just lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa as Disease Vector &#8211; A Twitter thread that asks a question nobody ever thinks about. (See also the same author&#8217;s thread on making saltwater taffy.) Cute Rat Photos &#8211; Diane \u00d6zdamar photographs rats looking particularly adorable in an effort to spruce up their negative image. They are, indeed, adorable. Sex with Demons Was Totally [&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-28986","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\/28986","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=28986"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28999,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions\/28999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}