{"id":5114,"date":"2010-11-22T09:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:15:23","slug":"custom-carbonites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"Custom Carbonites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/customcarbonite-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"Custom Carbonite\" title=\"Custom Carbonite\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Sculptor Paul Pape, who creates &#8220;general geekery&#8221; like wedding cake toppers shaped like World of Warcraft characters and <i>Coraline<\/i>-esque button eyes, is now offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulpapedesigns.com\/Store_GG.html\">Custom Carbonites<\/a>: Supply him with a photo and he will sculpt a customized image (face, clothing, and pose) &#8220;encased in carbonite.&#8221;  All for a surprisingly reasonable $50.<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures aren&#8217;t edible, but I expect you could use them to create candy molds if you were so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>He had an original run of 200 planned and promised them in time for Christmas, but since he was BoingBoinged he&#8217;s apparently already hit that cap.  He&#8217;s lifting the numeric restriction, but can&#8217;t promise that they&#8217;ll be ready for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be ready by Life Day.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculptor Paul Pape, who creates &#8220;general geekery&#8221; like wedding cake toppers shaped like World of Warcraft characters and Coraline-esque button eyes, is now offering Custom Carbonites: Supply him with a photo and he will sculpt a customized image (face, clothing, and pose) &#8220;encased in carbonite.&#8221; All for a surprisingly reasonable $50. The sculptures aren&#8217;t edible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}