{"id":32683,"date":"2022-01-10T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32683"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T17:55:28","slug":"ten-below-and-now-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32683","title":{"rendered":"Ten below and snow place to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might warm up to five below in the sun by noon today. If so I will move more snow for my next attempt at a snow sculpture, the first of 2022. As a hint beyond my usual one that &#8220;it will be white&#8221; I will give you the title I have in mind for it: 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently being given the snow I will need to proceed later in the week when it will be warm enough for me to &#8220;cook&#8221; my snow overnight so that I can sculpt it like clay rather than carve it like stone. Clay is a far more forgiving method of sculpting. What would Michelangelo have done had an errant tap with his chisel knocked of the nose of Jesus in the Pieta? I have only to make a snowball to a face and re-sculpt it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51806487230_9355b88f4c_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My youngest grandson has been lobbying me to knock down the increasingly ratty looking Choral quintet from before Christmas. I have told him he will have to wait. At the moment I rather like having a permanant group of spectators watching as I add snow. I also think it would be fun to keep them in the watchful mode even after I complete my sculpture. <\/p>\n<p>This is the clay model I made last night to speed up my sculpturing. Good luck figuring it out. I purposely made it very hard to blow up to get a good look at. I like to keep my projects secret till the passers-by can figure out for themselves what the devil has appeared on my doorstep.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51812958264_cd81cab36f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might warm up to five below in the sun by noon today. If so I will move more snow for my next attempt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32686,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions\/32686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}