{"id":3595,"date":"2002-10-21T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2002-10-21T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2002-10-21T20:42:03","slug":"mistress_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/21\/mistress_of_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Mistress of the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun article on Elvira<\/a>, who started out as a local horror movie hostess, and has since spawned her own little cottage industry.<\/p>\n

I’ve always enjoyed Cassandra Peterson’s self-deprecating sense of humor about the whole Elvira thing — about as far from a “star mentality” as you can get. It’s fun reading, and while I always enjoy seeing her, I can understand it if she’s thinking about going to her final rest …<\/p>\n

(via Quiddity<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun article on Elvira, who started out as a local horror movie hostess, and has since spawned her own little cottage industry. I’ve always enjoyed Cassandra Peterson’s self-deprecating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41405,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/killing-lincoln-or-at-least-his-sense-of-humor.html","url_meta":{"origin":3595,"position":0},"title":"Killing Lincoln (or at least his sense of humor)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Mar-14 1:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really, Bill? 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