{"id":824,"date":"2012-06-26T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T18:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/06\/26\/120626-yardart\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:41:38","slug":"120626-yardart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/06\/26\/120626-yardart\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Art Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post<\/a> about the cheesy lawn animals apparently struck a chord with some of you fellow rednecks<\/span> art connie-sewers. I’m happy to see there are other serious patrons of yard art out there. In particular, I enjoyed hearing from Dale Thompson, an intrepid Gazette reader who enclosed some photos of an occupant of his back yard, along with this narrative: “Of course this is an old photo with the green grass. Went with the old saying ‘go big or go home.’ Dragon’s head is about 9 feet with a 12 foot wingspan. Be careful with yard art; it can get out of hand.”<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Is that awesome, or what?<\/p>\n

Dale explained that his metal masterpiece is truly a work of art, created by a local artisan and entered in a show in Odessa where it won the People’s Choice award.<\/p>\n

His warning about things getting out of hand is well-heeded. But, sometimes, too big is just big enough. So I’m kicking myself for not bringing this bad boy home to throw down with the dragon:<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

As Daenerys<\/a> will testify, never count out a dragon…but an armor-clad 12-foot-tall knight with a big honkin’ sword is also a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n

It would have almost been worth the $600 purchase price to strap it into the bed of the Ridgeline for the trip home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post about the cheesy lawn animals apparently struck a chord with some of you fellow rednecks art connie-sewers. I’m happy to see there are other serious patrons of yard art out there. In particular, I enjoyed hearing from Dale Thompson, an intrepid Gazette reader who enclosed some photos of an occupant of his back… Continue reading Yard Art Follow-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[35,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-just-plain-silly","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}