{"id":5352,"date":"2009-12-16T07:13:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T16:11:39","slug":"secret-santa-my-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"Secret Santa: My Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay!<\/p>\n<p>The matchups for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5121\">Secret Santa Can Suck It<\/a> exchange have been made and sent out to their assignees.  After everyone posts their &#8220;gift&#8221; on their blog, I&#8217;ll put up a list of all the entries to peruse.  In the meantime, here&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<p>My recipient was <a href='http:\/\/marissadarling.blogspot.com\/'>Marissa Darling<\/a>, and my gift to her is this awesome spiked corset from The Blonds of New York (photo cribbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/hautemacabre.com\/2009\/12\/looking-sharp\/\">Haute Macabre<\/a> &#8211; Click for larger):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spikecorset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spikecorset-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spike Corset\" title=\"Spike Corset\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spikecorset-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spikecorset-115x150.jpg 115w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/spikecorset.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My secondary gift is a gallon of Bactine, because I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s possible to put your arms down in this thing without performing elective surgery on yourself.  But that&#8217;s not the point!  (So to speak.)  The point is to look both beautiful and badass, and I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll be able to manage that with no trouble at all.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this gift because from her writing she seems both lovely and rather spiky.  The corset will allow her to be alluring and unattainable all at once.<\/p>\n<p>So happy holidays, Marissa Darling!  I hope you enjoy your gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay! The matchups for our Secret Santa Can Suck It exchange have been made and sent out to their assignees. After everyone posts their &#8220;gift&#8221; on their blog, I&#8217;ll put up a list of all the entries to peruse. In the meantime, here&#8217;s mine. My recipient was Marissa Darling, and my gift to her is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","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=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}