{"id":1022,"date":"2025-12-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:53:38","slug":"merry-cryptid-mas-part-2-mothman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Merry Cryptid-Mas! Part 2: Mothman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a reminder, Cryptid-mas is a yearly episode where I weigh the pros and cons of various cryptids taking the role of Santa Claus. Or, if you&#8217;re my kid, this is Daddy Black Butterfly, aka Boom-boom-boom. I was intrigued to learn more about Mothman researching for this. That being said, no one really described his arms so I made a guess\/gave him moth-feelers for fingers. (Also honestly Mothman seems to have bird wings more than moth wings but I made some adjustments for my own aesthetics.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cryptid-Mas Collection:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=387\">Nessie<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry holidays and happy Christmas you all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reminder, Cryptid-mas is a yearly episode where I weigh the pros and cons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,374,274],"tags":[102,367,865,862,375,863,868,867,866,864,378],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-cryptid-mas","category-digital-art","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-cons","tag-cryptid","tag-cryptid-mas","tag-digital","tag-man","tag-moth","tag-mothman","tag-pros","tag-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedefrancofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}