{"id":735,"date":"2008-08-06T07:58:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T11:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:29:37","slug":"things-that-have-amused-me-recently-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Things That Have Amused Me Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best way to end an argument with a significant other is to light some candles and run a hot bath. Once they’re in it you add a toaster.
\n— AinsleyofAttack<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rogue Entomologist’s bug art<\/a>, particularly the Off with Their Heads<\/a> series, featuring praying mantis corpses dressed up in little costumes.<\/p>\n

ZombieHarmony<\/a> – “Because the Apocalypse doesn’t have to be lonely.” (Viral ad for a real dating site. Still funny.)<\/p>\n

Scary Sleepover<\/a> – Addictive little online game in which you try to scare a kid out of a haunted house using various “props” like talking portraits and flocks of bats.<\/p>\n

Adopt a Microbe<\/a> – “Hi there, I’m VZV<\/I>. My family is the Herpesviridae<\/I> family….”<\/p>\n

Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards in emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.
\n–Dave James<\/p>\n

Recent spam headlines I have received: “Set your wife on fire,” “Fondle all her internal nerve endings,” “Blow your lady’s mind into bits.” I’m clearly being spammed by H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best way to end an argument with a significant other is to light some candles and run a hot bath. Once they’re in it you add a toaster. — AinsleyofAttack The Rogue Entomologist’s bug art, particularly the Off with Their Heads series, featuring praying mantis corpses dressed up in little costumes. ZombieHarmony – “Because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}