{"id":6430,"date":"2010-04-08T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2010-03-19T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:12:09","slug":"shadow-coasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6430","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shadow&#8221; Coasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/guinness-150x118.jpg\" alt=\"Guinness Coasters\" title=\"Guinness Coasters\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>These are kind of brilliant.  I ran across them on <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritofhalloween.blogspot.com\/\">Orange and Black<\/a>, and a bit of sleuthing revealed that they were part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adofdamonth.com\/ads\/7314\">ad campaign in Romania<\/a>.  Guinness is a niche brand there, and the coasters were created as a low-cost idea to drive sales on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>These would be a fun and not-too-terribly-difficult project if you&#8217;re handy with an X-Acto knife.  The coasters could be cut out of acetate or other thin plastic, or possibly fron thin sheets of cork; if they won&#8217;t be used heavily they might also be cut from sturdy felt.<\/p>\n<p>A set of these coasters would be an interesting hostess gift, particularly if paired with a six-pack of Guinness or a dark alcohol like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=562\">Blavod<\/a>.  For a simple idea, they have an enormous amount of style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are kind of brilliant. I ran across them on Orange and Black, and a bit of sleuthing revealed that they were part of an ad campaign in Romania. Guinness is a niche brand there, and the coasters were created as a low-cost idea to drive sales on Halloween. These would be a fun and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430","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=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}