{"id":5562,"date":"2011-08-16T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:01:59","slug":"still-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/still-puzzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been giving some more thought to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=5435\">Yankee Candle Scented Puzzles<\/a> and I think the only way it makes sense to sell them in a store catering to nerds is if they have nerd-friendly themes. Lavender fields and Kinkade-like scenes aren&#8217;t cutting it. I believe these Lord of the Rings versions, however, would sell like hotcakes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dwarves1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<em>Yankee Candle Dwarf: Dirt, Beer, and Pretzels<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hobbits1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<em>Yankee Candle Hobbits: Apples, Grass, and Feet<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/orcs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<em>Yankee Candle Orcs: Iron and Ox Blood<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s so many more potentials&#8211;Gollum (fish breath and desperation), Gandalf (pipe weed and discarded fireworks), Lothlorien (haughty flowers and white wine), etc etc. And there are even more if they actually make The Hobbit into a movie&#8211;Smaug! 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I believe these Lord of the Rings versions, however, would sell&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/still-puzzling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fart","tag-invention"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Still Puzzling &#8226; Mellzah<\/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:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/still-puzzling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Still Puzzling &#8226; Mellzah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been giving some more thought to the Yankee Candle Scented Puzzles and I think the only way it makes sense to sell them in a store catering to nerds is if they have nerd-friendly themes. 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