{"id":10,"date":"2007-12-21T22:09:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T05:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-12-21T22:09:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T05:09:27","slug":"village-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Village People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago my friend, Sandra, and I got together and we made snowmen. Out of socks. And rice. And we named them.<br \/>\nThey were a holiday gift for our visiting teaching sisters.<\/p>\n<p>We had so much fun making them, and giving them each a personality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12.21_SnowPeople.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top Row (Left to Right):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Billy &#8211; He was the first one we named, and he just sort of had this young (snow)man look about him<\/li>\n<li>Potter &#8211; This one was an obvious reference to Harry Potter, the glasses and the short owl-like nose made it official<\/li>\n<li>Punchinello &#8211; This one was the hardest one to name. He had a sort of crooked stove pipe hat. The name came from the book, &#8220;You are Special&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom Row:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ma &#8211; She was the only snow(woman) with flower shaped buttons. Ma just seemed to fit. (&#8220;Grams&#8221; was another thought)<\/li>\n<li>Shorty &#8211; This one was the shortest and roundest of the bunch. The name is not too original though.<\/li>\n<li>Patty &#8211; We needed another girl, and the name just sort of sounded good.<\/li>\n<li>Johnny &#8211; Billy needed a brother.<\/li>\n<li>Pa &#8211; This was the tallest, biggest of all of the snowmen. Besides, you can&#8217;t have a Ma without a Pa!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sandra and I each kept a couple of them, and then we gave the others to the sisters we visit teach. It was surprisingly hard to decide which ones to give away. Once they had a name and a place in the snowman village, it was like putting them up for adoption. In a snowman-sock sort of way, of course.<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done. These were the two I ended up keeping. They now sit happily atop our piano.<br \/>\nSay hello to Potter and Punchinello.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12.21_SnowPeople2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I had way too much fun making these guys. And yes, I will probably do it again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago my friend, Sandra, and I got together and we made snowmen. Out of socks. And rice. And we named them. They were a holiday gift for our visiting teaching sisters. We had so much fun making them, and giving them each a personality. Top Row (Left to Right): Billy &#8211; He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}