{"id":4431,"date":"2009-10-01T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T05:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2014-04-25T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T19:29:00","slug":"international-darkness-appreciation-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"International Darkness Appreciation Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, it strikes us that darkness gets a bad rap. People associate it with evil, as in &#8220;the Dark Lord&#8221; and &#8220;the Dark Side of the Force.&#8221; Ridiculous! (Every MBer knows that evil is <i>pink<\/i>.) To redress the imbalance, MuseBlog hereby dedicates October and its Random Threads to the wonders and delights of darkness.<!--more--><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/i171.photobucket.com\/albums\/u291\/rglasley\/00%20MB%20Random\/starry-night-muses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i171.photobucket.com\/albums\/u291\/rglasley\/MuseBlog01\/starry-night-muses-x600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(<b>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/b> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nights get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, it strikes us that darkness gets a bad rap. People associate it with evil, as in &#8220;the Dark Lord&#8221; and &#8220;the Dark Side of the Force.&#8221; Ridiculous! (Every MBer knows that evil is pink.) To redress the imbalance, MuseBlog hereby dedicates October and its Random Threads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=4431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Darkness Appreciation Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}