{"id":8075,"date":"2012-12-19T00:28:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2012-12-19T00:34:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:34:16","slug":"newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8075","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Hook on my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight two women knocked on our front door and asked whether I would mind if they placed 26 red roses below the snow sculpture I finished working on tonight. I choked up a bit and told them I would be happy for them too do so but to watch their footing on the slippery loose snow I had carved off of my original pile of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cooper from Townsquare Media stopped by and took a few pictures of me chiseling away then <a href=\"http:\/\/mix108.com\/duluth-resident-shows-support-for-victims-of-sandy-hook-school-shooting-in-newtown-connecticut-with-a-guardian-angel-snow-sculpture-in-his-yard-photo-gallery\/\">explained my work<\/a> for the readers of several local radio stations he does work for. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectduluthday.com\/2012\/12\/17\/snow-sculpture\/\"><strong>Perfect Duluth Day<\/strong><\/a> also snapped a picture of it when I was at my five-year-old grandson&#8217;s kindergarten class yesterday helping make gingerbread houses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight two women knocked on our front door and asked whether I would mind if they placed 26 red roses below the snow sculpture&#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-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}