{"id":14431,"date":"2013-12-06T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=14431"},"modified":"2013-12-06T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T04:42:29","slug":"abandoned-toy-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/abandoned-toy-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned toy store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/abandoned1.jpg\" title=\"come inside, children - it's totally safe\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>This nightmare factory is The Toy Loft in Danielson, CT, and judging by the state of the place, it probably closed down circa 1853, right?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/abandoned2.jpg\" title=\"better selection than your local TRU\" width=\"450\" height=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>No, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abandonedplaygrounds.com\/?p=3711\" target=_blank>it was closed in 2007<\/a>, and the disrepair you see today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/travel\/eerie-abandoned-toy-store-and-factory-photos-20131202\" target=_blank>is the result of water damage<\/a>. The place used to have a mini golf course, a Laser Tag arena, and much more, making it less of a \"toy store\" and more of a \"fun-themed strip mall.\" And yet now, half a decade later, it looks like the setting for the next season of <i>American Horror Story<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/abandoned3.jpg\" title=\"headless Playmobil\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, Danielson is just a borough in the town of Killingly. \"Killingly: come for the murderous name, stay for the haunted halls where children's laughter used to sound.\"<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25078342@N00\/sets\/72157632504651932\/\" target=flik>via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nightmare factory is The Toy Loft in Danielson, CT, and judging by the state of the place, it probably closed down circa 1853, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playmobil","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}