{"id":6059,"date":"2012-01-05T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:04:46","slug":"return-frosty-mystery-ghost-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/05\/return-frosty-mystery-ghost-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Frosty and The Mystery of the Ghost Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Frosty the Snowman<\/strong> promised he would be back again one day,<\/em> and here he is! He’s returned from his bitter fate at the receiving end of a firing squad<\/a> and was reformed to enjoy another wintry day in the Southern portion of New Jersey just East of the metropolis that was Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

This is another one of John B Capewell’s glass negatives from about 100 years ago. Pictured is John’s sons along with a mysterious ghost boy petting a dog.<\/p>\n

\"Frosty<\/a><\/p>\n

NEXT WEEK: Mystery of The Ghost Boy Solved!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Capewell Glass Negative Collection
\nWeek 1<\/a> | 2<\/a> | 3<\/a> | 4<\/a> | 5<\/a> | 6<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frosty the Snowman promised he would be back again one day, and here he is! He’s returned from his bitter fate at the receiving end of a firing squad and was reformed to enjoy another wintry day in the Southern … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,120,1104],"tags":[1158,1105,1095,122,1177,1160,1200,3676,121,1159],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-1158","tag-capewell","tag-glass-negative","tag-new-jersey","tag-snow","tag-snowman","tag-south-jersey","tag-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-westville","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5679,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/22\/capewell-glass-negative-collection-swift-trial-severe-punishment-frosty-snowman\/","url_meta":{"origin":6059,"position":0},"title":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection – The Swift Trial and Severe Punishment of Frosty the Snowman","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I continue posting a collection of glass negatives from 100 or so years ago. 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