{"id":3918,"date":"2013-04-17T00:49:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2013-04-17T00:49:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:49:37","slug":"my-secret-pumpkin-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"My Secret Pumpkin Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, I signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretpumpkin.com\/\">Secret Pumpkin<\/a> exchange run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/\">Shadow Manor<\/a>.\u00a0 The idea is that you receive something when Halloween is far away, to warm your creepy little heart. In exchange, you send something to another pining Halloweenie. Yes, I made something, but you don&#8217;t get to see it until the recipient gets it. Be patient. What you get to see today is what I received from my awesome, awesome Pumpkin. Behold:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3919\" alt=\"Vampire Hunting Kit\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-588x441.jpg 588w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is what it looks like: a <em>vampire hunting kit,\u00a0<\/em>delightful in its completeness and authenticity. I am completely bowled over by this thing.\u00a0 I kept saying &#8220;oh man, oh man!&#8221;\u00a0 and giggling as I opened it.<\/p>\n<p>Contents:<\/p>\n<p>Wooden stake<br \/>\nMallet (because really, pounding that stake in is harder than Buffy makes it look)<br \/>\nWooden cross with St. Raphael medal<br \/>\nWooden box to contain vials<br \/>\nLarge vial for holy water<br \/>\nThunderstone<br \/>\nSalt<br \/>\nFlour of Garlic<br \/>\nHoly Incense<br \/>\nPoppy Seed<br \/>\nBrimstone Powder<br \/>\nCemetery Earth<br \/>\nCoffin Nails<br \/>\nVial of collected vampire fangs<br \/>\nMysterious key in pouch<br \/>\nNote in latin that basically says: &#8220;I am leaving you my holy kit to fight the evil Nosferatu that walks the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few more pics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-fangs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3920\" alt=\"kit-fangs\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-fangs-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-fangs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-fangs-588x441.jpg 588w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-fangs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-vials.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3921\" alt=\"kit-vials\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-vials-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-vials-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-vials-588x441.jpg 588w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-vials.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3922\" alt=\"kit-cross\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-cross-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-cross-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-cross-588x441.jpg 588w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kit-cross.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow. I want to figure out what every little thing means. Then I want to get an all-leather outfit and take the kit out hunting. Also, because she had to make sure I hadn&#8217;t moved, I got to know who my Secret Pumpkin was, so here&#8217;s a big, public THANK YOU, YOU ARE SO FREAKIN&#8217; AWESOME to Jenna, the mistress of Shadow Manor herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, I signed up for the Secret Pumpkin exchange run by Shadow Manor.\u00a0 The idea is that you receive something when Halloween is far away, to warm your creepy little heart. In exchange, you send something to another pining Halloweenie. Yes, I made something, but you don&#8217;t get to see it until the recipient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}