{"id":5766,"date":"2010-02-02T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T11:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:43:07","slug":"gloomy-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"Gloomy Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/gloomybear-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gloomy Bear Plush\" title=\"Gloomy Bear Plush\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a little critter that&#8217;s perfect for the perkygoth.  Graphic designer Mori Chack developed Gloomy Bear as the antithesis of the excessively cute characters peddled by Sanrio and Disney.  He describes it as a 2 meter tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans (its human &#8220;friend&#8221; is covered with cuts and bruises).<\/p>\n<p>The list of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/qid=1263911790\/ref=sr_nr_seeall_2?ie=UTF8&#038;rs=&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;keywords=gloomy%20bear&#038;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Agloomy%20bear%2Ci%3Atoys-and-games\">Gloomy Bear products<\/a> is surprisingly diverse, including all kinds of plush (like the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gloomy-Bear-Purple-Vampire-Plush\/dp\/B002TNAZVA\/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&#038;s=toys-and-games&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1263911938&#038;sr=1-22\">vampire bear<\/a> shown here), <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gloomy-Bear-Pink-Costume-Hat\/dp\/B002Y208IQ\/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&#038;s=toys-and-games&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1263911938&#038;sr=1-18\">hats<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gloomy-Bear-Extra-Blood-Keychain\/dp\/B002PATGHG\/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&#038;s=toys-and-games&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1263911904&#038;sr=1-30\">keychains<\/a> (with extra blood), <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gloomy-Bear-Face-Fleece-Mittens\/dp\/B001GWX63E\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=toys-and-games&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1263917412&#038;sr=8-2\">mittens<\/a>, and much else.<\/p>\n<p>I think the product line is too extensive for this to really be considered ironic any more, but bloody fanged accessories still beat fluffy cute ones.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to Kitten Herder)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little critter that&#8217;s perfect for the perkygoth. Graphic designer Mori Chack developed Gloomy Bear as the antithesis of the excessively cute characters peddled by Sanrio and Disney. He describes it as a 2 meter tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans (its human &#8220;friend&#8221; is covered with cuts and bruises). The list of [&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-5766","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\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}