{"id":438,"date":"2009-12-13T17:19:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T01:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-12-18T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T05:03:50","slug":"a-hellboy-christmas-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2009\/a-hellboy-christmas-ornament","title":{"rendered":"A Hellboy Christmas (Ornament)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago, Carrie shared a story with me about making Christmas tree ornaments with your kids. For some reason, the first ornament subject matter that popped into my mind for such a project was Hellboy. <\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar, Hellboy is the (clearly) fictional spawn of the devil, summoned to Earth by an unholy alliance of Nazis, Rasputin, and occultists as a weapon against the Allies in World War II. Of course, like all things involving Nazis, Rasputin, and occultists, things go wrong. Allied forces intervene, and a young Hellboy is adopted and nurtured by an American professor who also happens to run a Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. As Hellboy grows, he retains fierce loyalty to the USA and fights off occult threats around the world. <\/p>\n

It’s a classic “local boy done good” kind of story… documented in many comic books, graphic novels<\/a>, prose<\/a> and motion pictures<\/a>\"\". <\/p>\n

So, with all of this in mind, I give you my hand-sculpted, hand-painted Hellboy Christmas ornament. It took one evening of sculpting and baking (as I used Sculpey as the material), and another evening to paint it and the surrounding globe. <\/p>\n

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Several weeks ago, Carrie shared a story with me about making Christmas tree ornaments with your kids. For some reason, the first ornament subject matter that popped into my mind for such a project was Hellboy. For those unfamiliar, Hellboy is the (clearly) fictional spawn of the devil, summoned to Earth by an unholy alliance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[438,85,437,435,436],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-crafts","tag-hellboy","tag-ornament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}