{"id":1126,"date":"2009-11-01T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/11\/fairy-costumes-are-for-chumps.html"},"modified":"2009-11-01T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T20:25:32","slug":"fairy-costumes-are-for-chumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/11\/fairy-costumes-are-for-chumps.html","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Costumes Are For Chumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/budgeoween7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"budgeoween7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/budgeoween7-thumb-400x300-9057.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/budgeoween5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"budgeoween5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/budgeoween5-thumb-400x300-9059.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/budgeoween6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"budgeoween6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/budgeoween6-thumb-400x300-9061.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div>She looks like what might happen if the Tin Man and the Scarecrow mated and produced a doll-decapitating serial killer, but appearances can be deceiving: she is a <a href=\"http:\/\/herbadmother.com\/2009\/11\/baby-heads-are-the-new-black\/\">Jumbo Rainbow Craft Robot<\/a>, and the decapitated baby head is Baby Sally, who is &#8211; fear not &#8211; very much alive and well and fulfilling her role as Emilia&#8217;s shoulder companion (&#8216;<i>so I won&#8217;t get scared trick-or-treating.<\/i>&#8216; This is a girl who approaches fear in novel and exciting ways.)<\/p>\n<p>Next Halloween I might think twice before I say, <i>you can go as whatever you want, sweetie<\/i>, but then again, maybe not. The looks on the faces of the candy-dispensing ladies at the seniors&#8217; home were kind of worth it. Maybe a lot worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe next year I&#8217;ll make sure there&#8217;re extra baby heads on hand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She looks like what might happen if the Tin Man and the Scarecrow mated and produced a doll-decapitating serial killer, but appearances can be deceiving: she is a Jumbo Rainbow Craft Robot, and the decapitated baby head is Baby Sally, who is &#8211; fear not &#8211; very much alive and well and fulfilling her role&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emilia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fairy Costumes Are For Chumps - Their Bad Mother<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/11\/fairy-costumes-are-for-chumps.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fairy Costumes Are For Chumps - Their Bad Mother\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She looks like what might happen if the Tin Man and the Scarecrow mated and produced a doll-decapitating serial killer, but appearances can be deceiving: she is a Jumbo Rainbow Craft Robot, and the decapitated baby head is Baby Sally, who is &#8211; 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