{"id":4489,"date":"2009-09-23T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2009-09-22T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:40:49","slug":"monsters-vs-hunters-chess-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"Monsters vs. Hunters Chess Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/queens-131x150.jpg\" alt=\"Queens\" title=\"Queens\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/marchingdog.com\/\">Marching Dog<\/a> has created this amazing hand-sculpted chess set featuring monsters vs. hunters, and is offering a limited-edition series of 750 sets.  Each one is cold-cast marble, and they are simply gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>The pieces for each side are captured in the same pose, and they&#8217;re (more or less) each other&#8217;s opposite:<\/p>\n<p>Kings &#8211; Van Helsing vs. Frankenstein(&#8216;s Monster)<br \/>\nQueens &#8211; Redneck vs. Death<br \/>\nBishops &#8211; Priests vs. Vampires<br \/>\nKnights &#8211; Soliders vs. Werewolves<br \/>\nRooks &#8211; Churches vs. Haunted Castles<br \/>\nPawns &#8211; Villagers vs. Zombies<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the queens; the &#8220;redneck&#8221; has a chainsaw, wooden stakes, bandolier of shotgun shells, and a shotgun hidden behind her back.  Death&#8217;s robe is torn in the back, exposing her ribcage.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t cheap&#8211;they&#8217;re $400 per set and don&#8217;t include a board&#8211;but if you&#8217;re looking for a truly unique gift I think this would qualify.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching Dog has created this amazing hand-sculpted chess set featuring monsters vs. hunters, and is offering a limited-edition series of 750 sets. Each one is cold-cast marble, and they are simply gorgeous. The pieces for each side are captured in the same pose, and they&#8217;re (more or less) each other&#8217;s opposite: Kings &#8211; Van Helsing [&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-4489","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\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}