{"id":9937,"date":"2026-10-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T01:29:05","slug":"monster-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=9937","title":{"rendered":"Monster Mud!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bjorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bjorn-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A pink foam tombstone topped with a skull that has been draped with a hood soaked with monster mud.\" class=\"wp-image-9938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bjorn-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bjorn-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bjorn.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost forgot to blog today!  Now Sunday, I can excuse.  Day of rest and all.  But back to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my first time working with monster mud.  If you&#8217;re not familiar, monster mud is 5 parts prepared joint compound and 1 part latex paint.  This cloth should dry nice and stiff, then I&#8217;ll coat it with matte sealer for outdoor protection.  Lots of painting and other work to do yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost forgot to blog today! Now Sunday, I can excuse. Day of rest and all. But back to it! This is my first time working with monster mud. If you&#8217;re not familiar, monster mud is 5 parts prepared joint compound and 1 part latex paint. This cloth should dry nice and stiff, then I&#8217;ll coat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","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=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9939,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}