{"id":1266,"date":"2007-08-10T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2007-08-10T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T00:56:10","slug":"on-seafaring-lego-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"On Seafaring LEGO Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean gives up its secrets.  In the Dutch village of Zandvoort, the secret was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.metro.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2007\/08\/legobeachEPA_175x125.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=175 height=125 \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=60528&#038;in_page_id=2\">An eight-foot tall LEGO man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The eight foot tall smiling Lego man with a yellow head and blue torso was seen bobbing in the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LEGO men, lost at sea.  Surely, this blue man was following merely in the steps once trod by his Viking ancestors &mdash; a thousand years ago the Danes plundered and pillaged from the Mediterranean to Iceland and beyond.  Their LEGO descendants &mdash; surely they would feel a wanderlust.  Surely!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s safe now, the LEGO man, guarding a lemonade stand.  The ocean did him no harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean gives up its secrets. In the Dutch village of Zandvoort, the secret was&#8230; An eight-foot tall LEGO man. The eight foot tall smiling Lego man with a yellow head and blue torso was seen bobbing in the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort yesterday. LEGO men, lost at sea. Surely, this blue<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1266\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Seafaring LEGO Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[4103,4105,352],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legos","tag-lego","tag-news","tag-weird","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}