{"id":4231,"date":"2009-09-10T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T11:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:26:57","slug":"campfire-songs-for-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4231","title":{"rendered":"Campfire Songs for Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sippingcoversm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" title=\"Book Cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>One nice thing about little kids is that gross things make them giggle.  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Campfire-Monsters-Sipping-Spiders-Through\/dp\/0439584019\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1250688372&#038;sr=1-1\">Sipping Spiders Through a Straw<\/a> would be an absolute laff riot for the graham cracker set, since it adds creepy lyrics to popular campfire songs and pairs them with appropriate pictures.  &#8220;My Delicious Frankenstein&#8221; (In a kitchen, in a castle\/filled with mold and turpentine\/lived a baker, monster maker\/and her true love Frankenstein) features a monster with whipped cream and a cherry, and Zombie Midge (Zombie Midge is falling down, rolling round, all through town\/Zombie Midge is falling down\/My pale lady) has maggots dribbling off her edges.<\/p>\n<p>The artist is the splendidly-named Gris Grimly, who&#8217;s illustrated similar works (such as Wicked Nursery Rhymes <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gris-Grimlys-Wicked-Nursery-Rhymes\/dp\/0972938877\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1250688577&#038;sr=1-1\">I<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gris-Grimlys-Wicked-Nursery-Rhymes\/dp\/0972938834\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1250688577&#038;sr=1-2\">II<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Where-Madness-Reigns-Gris-Grimly\/dp\/0977894983\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1250688599&#038;sr=1-1\">Where Madness Reigns<\/a>).  His stuff somehow manages to be macabre and whimsical at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a great gift for a slightly-morbid child (in other words, all of them), or for an adult with a dark sense of humor.  It&#8217;d be fun to bust out the alternate lyrics around the campfire and simultaneously amuse the kids and unsettle the adults.  Fun for the whole family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One nice thing about little kids is that gross things make them giggle. Sipping Spiders Through a Straw would be an absolute laff riot for the graham cracker set, since it adds creepy lyrics to popular campfire songs and pairs them with appropriate pictures. &#8220;My Delicious Frankenstein&#8221; (In a kitchen, in a castle\/filled with mold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","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=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}