{"id":661,"date":"2011-10-06T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-10-06T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:07:48","slug":"romantic-monster-encounters-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2011\/10\/06\/romantic-monster-encounters-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Monster Encounters (DAY 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-664\" title=\"pumpkins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkins-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkins-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumpkins.jpg 965w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Monsters are rumored to be inherently impractical with their uncontrollable urges, hideousness and general tendency to either mess up your life or mess up your stuff. Face it: you see a monster coming, and you cross the street or try to act natural so it doesn&#8217;t notice you and do something horrible like suck all the blood out of your body or spit acidic bile all over your car.<br \/>\nBut monsters are not, as you may think, freaks of nature.<br \/>\nMonsters are as natural as anyone else, capable of great and terrible things, like you or me.<br \/>\nFrom the sketchbooks of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Nyssa Oru,<\/strong><\/span> Northern California illustrator extraordinaire, are six rare portraits of LGBT supernatural beings enjoying each other as loving, caring creatures.<br \/>\nThis is Nyssa&#8217;s third Gothtober, she&#8217;s been drawing monsters awhile, plus a few other things besides, and if you wish to wander off task in a productive way,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a title=\"visit here\" href=\"http:\/\/z-nao-factor.deviantart.com\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit here<\/a><\/span> to see more of Nyssa&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monsters are rumored to be inherently impractical with their uncontrollable urges, hideousness and general tendency to either mess up your life or mess up your stuff. Face it: you see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2011\/10\/06\/romantic-monster-encounters-day-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romantic Monster Encounters (DAY 6)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}