{"id":44023,"date":"2014-07-31T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/geeky-smell-o-vision.html"},"modified":"2014-08-03T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:50:20","slug":"geeky-smell-o-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/geeky-smell-o-vision.html","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Smell-o-Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Yes, because I want my house to smell like the Shire: burning tobacco, mulch, and pig shit.<\/p>\n<p>Or Sherlock&#39;s study: talc, gunpowder, rosin, and the faint whiff of formaldehyde.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or the TARDIS: \u00a0Oil, ozone, dust, and a thousand whiffs of foreign atmospheres.<\/p>\n<p>Or Dumbledore&#39;s office: More dust, varnish, incense, and burning bird feathers &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some things are perhaps better left as visuals.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102984561846295750720\" oid=\"102984561846295750720\">Marty Shaw<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100203506087331177832'>GeekAlerts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Does your nose know geek when it smells it? <b>Frostbeard\u2019s Geeky Candles<\/b> provide an aroma for many geeky places, letting you finally know what certain fandoms actually smell like.  <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23candles\">#candles<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/frostbeards-geeky-candles\/\">http:\/\/www.geekalerts.com\/frostbeards-geeky-candles\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-gyED_2pHYgU\/U9pDleuwcjI\/AAAAAAAAYvQ\/WOLhEfw3Jcs\/Frostbeards-Geeky-Candles.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hb6PYduVGYc' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, because I want my house to smell like the Shire: burning tobacco, mulch, and pig shit. Or Sherlock&#39;s study: talc, gunpowder, rosin, and the faint whiff of formaldehyde.\u00a0 Or the TARDIS: \u00a0Oil, ozone, dust, and a thousand whiffs of foreign atmospheres. Or Dumbledore&#39;s office: More dust, varnish, incense, and burning bird feathers &#8230; Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/geeky-smell-o-vision.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geeky Smell-o-Vision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44024,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,16],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-44023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-potpourri","tag-candles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Frostbeards-Geeky-Candles.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10648,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/redshirts_and_vader.html","url_meta":{"origin":44023,"position":0},"title":"Redshirts and Vader","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Dec-06 8:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Your geeky YouTube fixes for today. 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