{"id":7647,"date":"2010-08-19T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2010-07-30T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:02:52","slug":"the-bone-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"The Bone Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/batskeleton-150x128.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Skeleton\" title=\"Bat Skeleton\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Occasionally whilst surfing the &#8216;Net, I&#8217;ll find a site that puts me in danger of spending <em>way<\/em> more than I should because everything is Just! So! Cool!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/index.html\">The Bone Room<\/a> is one of those sites.<\/p>\n<p>They call themselves, &#8220;the web&#8217;s premiere natural history store,&#8221; but &#8220;the goth decorating superstore,&#8221; would also be appropriate.  They&#8217;ve got all kinds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/bone\/bone.html\">bones<\/a> both genuine (including legal-to-sell human ones) and reproduction, and they even offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/faqs\/bones.html#cleaning\">instructions<\/a> for cleaning your own finds.  They&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/misc\/remnants.htm\">other bits of animals<\/a>, ranging from fairly mundane things such as coyote claws to somewhat more arresting items like a purse made out of a cane toad.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/jewelry\/amberjewelry.html\">natural jewelry<\/a> features earrings made of real beetle wings, and lovely pendants made from real spider webs (they also have a lot of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroom.com\/insects\/webs.htm\">mounted webs<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re local to their brick-and-mortar store in Berkeley, CA, they also offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boneroompresents.com\/\">The Bone Room Presents<\/a>, a &#8220;natural history salon&#8221; where they present lectures and other educational materials.<\/p>\n<p>Many of their items are surprisingly affordable and would make a lovely addition to a cabinet of curiosities.  There are also some wonderfully unique gift ideas: Even the person who &#8220;has everything&#8221; probably doesn&#8217;t have a Pleistocene bear tooth.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus Link: Check out their video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8dBZyP6PWWw&#038;feature=player_embedded\">The Perfect Pet<\/a>, offering &#8220;an overview of the process of turning your &#8216;late&#8217; (high maintenance) companion into an articulated skeleton.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally whilst surfing the &#8216;Net, I&#8217;ll find a site that puts me in danger of spending way more than I should because everything is Just! So! Cool! The Bone Room is one of those sites. They call themselves, &#8220;the web&#8217;s premiere natural history store,&#8221; but &#8220;the goth decorating superstore,&#8221; would also be appropriate. They&#8217;ve got [&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-7647","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\/7647","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=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7676,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}