{"id":577,"date":"2008-07-04T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2008-06-24T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:20:54","slug":"carpe-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom?  That&#8217;s the plot of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Carpe-Demon-Adventures-Demon-Hunting-Soccer\/dp\/0515142212\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1213709330&#038;sr=8-1\">Carpe Demon<\/a> series of books by Julie Kenner.  Sequels include <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/California-Demon-Secret-Demon-Hunting-Soccer\/dp\/B000JMK8RE\/ref=pd_bbs_4?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1213710021&#038;sr=8-4\">California Demon<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Demons-Are-Forever-Confessions-Demon-Hunting\/dp\/B0017HZ0WI\/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1213710181&#038;sr=8-3\">Demons are Forever<\/a>.  Har har har.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rather strange mix of &#8220;vampire slayer&#8221; and &#8220;mommy lit&#8221;&#8211;I didn&#8217;t realize that the intersection between Buffy fans and soccer moms was sufficiently great to market a whole series of books toward them&#8211; but the books have pretty decent reviews and look like fun.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a beach read (assuming you don&#8217;t burst into flames in the sunlight), these would probably be an excellent choice.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memarielane.com\/\">Memarie Lane<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? That&#8217;s the plot of the Carpe Demon series of books by Julie Kenner. Sequels include California Demon and Demons are Forever. Har har har. This is a rather strange mix of &#8220;vampire slayer&#8221; and &#8220;mommy lit&#8221;&#8211;I [&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-577","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\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}