{"id":6652,"date":"2015-10-28T15:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:27:53","slug":"just-a-head-on-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/just-a-head-on-a-stick","title":{"rendered":"Just a head on a stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches.jpg\" class=\"imgpop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches-350x263.jpg\" alt=\"Three Witches\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" class=\"wp-image-6653 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 0;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches-350x263.jpg 350w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/three-witches.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0.2em 0; font-size: 0.8em; text-align: center; background: #121212;\"><span style=\"color: #777;\">Pictured left to right:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ccc;\">Calamity, Pariah, Infamy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Life as just a head on a stick, propped in a corner of the garage, isn&#8217;t much. I suppose it&#8217;s better than being just a head on a stick, say &#8230; in an outhouse, with a roll of toilet paper jammed on your nose.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>Even so, you&#8217;re still just a head on a stick. \u00a0And so was poor, poor Pariah. For six long years she peered from her corner behind the step ladders. \u00a0An innocuous presence, her derelict existence perfectly depicted\u00a0the essence of her name while her two sisters, <a href=\"\/spookyblog\/gallery-list\/spooky-hollow-2009-witches\">Calamity and Infamy<\/a>, enjoyed a heightened status of being heads on much longer sticks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ts a tossup whether or not building a body for Pariah has contributed to her existential beauty, but there were always supposed to be <em>three<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"\/halloween\/brigands\/witches\/\">Grim\u00a0Sisters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/calamity-pariah-infamy.jpg\" class=\"imgpop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/calamity-pariah-infamy-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"That's a dried up maple leaf in Calamity's hair - she was always a bit of a princess\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6677 size-thumbnail\" title=\"That's a dried up maple leaf in Calamity's hair - she was always a bit of a princess\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/calamity-pariah-infamy-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/calamity-pariah-infamy-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/warm-by-the-fire.jpg\" class=\"imgpop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/warm-by-the-fire-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Warm by the fire\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6679 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/warm-by-the-fire-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/warm-by-the-fire-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/green-stew.jpg\" class=\"imgpop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/green-stew-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bubbling green stew\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6678 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/green-stew-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2015\/10\/green-stew-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearFloat\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured left to right: Calamity, Pariah, Infamy Life as just a head on a stick, propped in a corner of the garage, isn&#8217;t much. I suppose it&#8217;s better than being just a head on a stick, say &#8230; in an outhouse, with a roll of toilet paper jammed on your nose. Even so, you&#8217;re still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[86,30,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}