{"id":91,"date":"2015-10-20T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:50:23","slug":"first-post-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"First Post…ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spindle the Clown was really old, so he went to Miami for rest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but drank more vodka than he could hold and collapsed with a pain in his chest.<\/p>\n

He died that night in his hotel suit but not before fouling his shorts and hurling his lunch from his chest to his feet in retching, heaving, snorts.<\/p>\n

Nobody knew he was there, by chance, having very few friends, to be sure, and his room was paid for the month in advance with “DO NOT DISTURB!”on the door.<\/p>\n

So his body sat in the heat to bloat and his organs turned to soup and flies laid eggs in his nose and throat and beetles infested his poop.<\/p>\n

Rats and roaches came up through the shower, the odors were pungent and fresh and feasted on Spindle for 93 hours, stripping his bones of flesh.<\/p>\n

When housekeeping finally entered the room, hardly a crumb remained. Spindle the Clown was completely gone, except for his creepy brain.<\/p>\n

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Hello, I’m Marsha and this is our blog.\u00a0 I do all the writing and John does all the art (but I’m in charge).\u00a0 We’re working on several (Graphic Novel)\u00a0book projects – the first, “Marsha Mellow’s Blue-ish Freaks” will be out soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We met Spindle the Clown a few years ago while researching death rituals among the Clown species.\u00a0 We spent a week\u00a0 documenting his demise – only to witness him defy death in the end.\u00a0 Sadly, his brain grew up to be a corporate banker…..tragic.\u00a0 John insisted that we use this image for our first post for some strange symbolism that only idiotic artists understand.\u00a0 Whatever!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spindle the Clown was really old, so he went to Miami for rest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but drank more vodka than he could hold and collapsed with a pain in his chest. He died that night in his hotel suit but not before fouling his shorts and hurling his lunch from his chest to his feet in retching, … Continue reading First Post…ever.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7,28,34,13,37,25,16,10,31,19,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}