{"id":730,"date":"2008-08-08T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:56:01","slug":"our-little-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Our Little Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/heartweb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Heartweb from Lilac Twist\" title=\"Heartweb from Lilac Twist\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theotherpages.org\/poems\/2001\/alcott0101.html\">this poem<\/a> by Louisa May Alcott the other day, and it occurred to me that the first stanza would be perfect for a gothy baby announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oft, in the silence of the night,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the lonely moon rides high,<br \/>\nWhen wintry winds are whistling,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And we hear the owl&#8217;s shrill cry,<br \/>\nIn the quiet, dusky chamber,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By the flickering firelight,<br \/>\nRising up between two sleepers,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Comes a spirit all in white<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like this verse because it sounds a bit spooky but is tame enough not to upset your more mainstream relatives.  You could put it inside some pretty stationery from someplace like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilactwist.com\/zen\/\">Lilac Twist<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purplefairy.co.uk\/\">Purple Fairy<\/a> to create unique personalized announcements.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hgtv.com\/crafting\/handmade-baby-wedding-cards\/index.html\">HGTV site<\/a> about making handmade announcements if you need some inspiration, although the procedure itself is obviously pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>If your tastes run toward the morbid, there&#8217;s no reason why you have to resign yourself to icky-sweet lambs and duckies on your birth announcements.  Just take care with the card design and you can include darker elements without offending Aunt Bessie from Shreveport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this poem by Louisa May Alcott the other day, and it occurred to me that the first stanza would be perfect for a gothy baby announcement. Oft, in the silence of the night, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And we hear the owl&#8217;s shrill cry, In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}