{"id":360,"date":"2008-01-30T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-01-29T14:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T18:08:22","slug":"the-goth-o-matic-poetry-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"The Goth-o-Matic Poetry Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This amusing little time-waster allows you to select various wording options to generate your own &#8220;original&#8221; gothic poetry.  I love the author&#8217;s tongue-in-cheek treatment of the horrible, soul-crushing <EM>despair<\/EM> of it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Night Ritual<\/p>\n<p>Around, all around, the shadows gather.<br \/>\nMy dread grows as the dagger of your words falls against my naked soul.<br \/>\nIt crushes me, and darkly my<br \/>\nblood drips<br \/>\nto the wicked earth that is my prison.<br \/>\nIn a frenzy I call your name<br \/>\nwhile oblivion laughs cruelly.<br \/>\nNow alone, my cascade of tears falls upon darkened eyes.<\/p>\n<p>This is my doom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlounge.com\/poetry\/poems.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also check out the Brunching Shuttlecocks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunching.com\/gothquotex.html\">Goth Quote Generator<\/a>.  Somewhat to my horror, I&#8217;ve run across snippets from this widget on other sites, being presented as &#8220;real&#8221; quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This amusing little time-waster allows you to select various wording options to generate your own &#8220;original&#8221; gothic poetry. I love the author&#8217;s tongue-in-cheek treatment of the horrible, soul-crushing despair of it all. Night Ritual Around, all around, the shadows gather. My dread grows as the dagger of your words falls against my naked soul. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}