{"id":4011,"date":"2009-07-28T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2009-07-23T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:06:36","slug":"the-fantod-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"The Fantod Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fantod-78x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fantod\" title=\"Fantod\" width=\"78\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a little something for Edward Gorey fans: in the 60s, Gorey illustrated a 20-card &#8220;tarot&#8221; pack for <i>Esquire<\/i> magazine.  It was eventually published as an <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fantod-Pack-Edward-Gorey\/dp\/B0014JMCAC\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1247834716&#038;sr=8-1\">actual deck<\/a>, along with an interpretation booklet also written by Gorey.<\/p>\n<p>The cards have titles like &#8220;The Waltzing Mouse,&#8221; &#8220;The Burning Head,&#8221; and &#8220;The Limb,&#8221; and although tarot enthusiasts warn that they aren&#8217;t much good for actual fortune-telling (duh), they&#8217;d be a wonderful part of a collection.  Or just frame them individually and hang them as art.  It&#8217;s hard to go wrong with Gorey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little something for Edward Gorey fans: in the 60s, Gorey illustrated a 20-card &#8220;tarot&#8221; pack for Esquire magazine. It was eventually published as an actual deck, along with an interpretation booklet also written by Gorey. The cards have titles like &#8220;The Waltzing Mouse,&#8221; &#8220;The Burning Head,&#8221; and &#8220;The Limb,&#8221; and although tarot enthusiasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}