{"id":128,"date":"2009-04-24T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/a-moai-comes-to-linn-county\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:22:17","slug":"a-moai-comes-to-linn-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/a-moai-comes-to-linn-county\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moai Comes to Linn County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Moai\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/Moai.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"807\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago my friend and fellow sculptor, Steve Piper, said he had been commissioned to make a sculpture of an Easter Island head or Moai. He wondered if I thought he should take it. I did think he should do it, but I thought the price he was to be paid was too low for the amount of work he was going to have to put into it.<\/p>\n<p>He took the commission, first producing a small clay model, then a quarter scale wire frame version to get his sizing right. If you want to see a short clip of the production process, let me know and I will email you the file. I have had trouble loading it into this blog entry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve and Austin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/SteveAndAustin.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday he finally got it moved and set in place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christening the work\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/SteveAndAnn.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"524\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago my friend and fellow sculptor, Steve Piper, said he had been commissioned to make a sculpture of an Easter Island head or Moai. He wondered if I thought he should take it. I did think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/a-moai-comes-to-linn-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}