{"id":25928,"date":"2025-08-08T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:05:31","slug":"say-hello-to-labubu-a-cuddly-collectible-with-a-hint-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/say-hello-to-labubu-a-cuddly-collectible-with-a-hint-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to Labubu: A cuddly collectible with a hint of hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labubu began as a cutesy monster character in Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung\u2019s Nordic mythology-inspired picture book series, \u201cThe Monsters.\u201d However, when Pop Mart, a Chinese toy company, began producing and selling the character as a collectible plush toy in blind boxes in 2019, it became a global sensation, producing millions of dollars in revenue over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/shows\/relatable\/say-hello-to-labubu-a-cuddly-collectible-with-a-hint-of-hell\">theblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labubu began as a cutesy monster character in Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung\u2019s Nordic mythology-inspired picture book series, \u201cThe Monsters.\u201d However, when Pop Mart, a Chinese toy company, began producing and selling the character as a collectible plush toy in blind boxes in 2019, it became a global sensation, producing millions of dollars in revenue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/say-hello-to-labubu-a-cuddly-collectible-with-a-hint-of-hell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say hello to Labubu: A cuddly collectible with a hint of hell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Kc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25929,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions\/25929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}