{"id":5395,"date":"2014-10-31T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2014-10-30T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T22:20:02","slug":"beware-gordoom-the-living-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2014\/10\/31\/beware-gordoom-the-living-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware, Gordoom the Living Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5394\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2014\/10\/31\/beware-gordoom-the-living-pumpkin\/strange-tales-scarecrow\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1163,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;STRANGE TALES SCARECROW&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"STRANGE TALES SCARECROW\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-229x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-784x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5394\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"STRANGE TALES SCARECROW\" width=\"625\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL-624x815.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/10\/GORDOOM-FINAL.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>All Hallows Eve<\/strong> is upon us and <a href=\"http:\/\/marcbasile.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Basile<\/a> has an imaginary tale to share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;It was back in 1959, in Tales Too Suspenseful #31 that &#8220;Beware, Gordoom the Living Pumpkin&#8221; appeared.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Two teen age pranksters build a scarecrow that they hope will frighten the younger kids on their way to Farmer\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Brown&#8217;s annual Halloween party. The only thing is they picked a pumpkin from a field into which a meteorite had\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">fallen, spewing cosmic radiation all over the pumpkins. And as fate would have a well placed lightening bolt strikes\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">their creation, bringing it to life.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It&#8217;s then up to Timmy and Tommy Horton to stop the monster by&#8230; well you read the ending yourself.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Hallows Eve is upon us and Marc Basile has an imaginary tale to share&#8230; &#8220;It was back in 1959, in Tales Too Suspenseful #31 that &#8220;Beware, Gordoom the Living Pumpkin&#8221; appeared.\u00a0Two teen age pranksters build a scarecrow that they hope will frighten the younger kids on their way to Farmer\u00a0Brown&#8217;s annual Halloween party. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"KIRBY-VISION: Gordoom the Living Pumpkin by Marc Basile -","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":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-basile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}