{"id":938,"date":"2008-09-02T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2008-09-01T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T01:41:56","slug":"the-boney-bunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"The Boney Bunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/boneybunch-87x150.jpg\" alt=\"Boney Bunch Couple\" title=\"Boney Bunch Couple\" width=\"87\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>This post was originally going to be a little heads-up about Yankee Candle&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankeecandle.com\/cgi-bin\/ycbvp\/listing.jsp?category=%2fRetail%2fCandle+Accessories%2fCandle+Accessory+Collections%2fBoney+Bunch\">Boney Bunch<\/a> product line, but then reader Alea wrote me with a problem: Because Halloween falls on a Friday this year, there&#8217;s a spike in Halloween weddings and Yankee Candle has sold out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yankeecandle.com\/cgi-bin\/ycbvp\/product_detail.jsp?oid=5629930\">Bride and Groom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their reps are saying that they don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ll be able to restock before Halloween, and this particular item is so popular that it&#8217;s selling for up to $400 on eBay right now.  Alea hopes that if we all nag Yankee Candle, they might make restocking a priority.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having a Halloween wedding and would like some of these cuties as favors or cake toppers, or if you just want to let Yankee Candle know that we spooky types are a nontrivial part of their demographic, you might want to drop them a line at <A HREEF=\"mailto:info@yankeecandle.com\">info@yankeecandle.com<\/a> and ask them nicely to restock these guys before the big day.<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re lucky enough to be a Halloween bride <EM>next<\/EM> year, better keep an eye on these and snap them up as soon as they&#8217;re back in stock.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally going to be a little heads-up about Yankee Candle&#8217;s new Boney Bunch product line, but then reader Alea wrote me with a problem: Because Halloween falls on a Friday this year, there&#8217;s a spike in Halloween weddings and Yankee Candle has sold out of the Bride and Groom. Their reps are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}