{"id":36163,"date":"2005-03-16T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/03\/16\/the-great-alaskan-ice-sculpture\/"},"modified":"2005-03-16T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T07:01:00","slug":"the-great-alaskan-ice-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050316-00\/?p=36163","title":{"rendered":"The great Alaskan ice sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4528632\"> NPR interviewed John Reeves, the artist behind a 160-foot-tall mountain of ice in Alaska<\/a>. The man has a down-home aw-shucks kind of demeanor that I found quite charming.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  I&#8217;m a middle-aged guy that has a lot of time in the winter and a little bit of extra money to play with, so my hobby was to see how big an ice hill I could grow. I started last year as just a way to amuse myself just to see what would happen if you left the water running all winter, and last year&#8217;s model was so interesting and so much fun that this year I decided to continue doing it.\n <b> Well, a long winter in Alaska will do that to you, I guess.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> Yes it will. A long, cold, dark&#8230; lengthy, cold&#8230; did I mention cold? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR interviewed John Reeves, the artist behind a 160-foot-tall mountain of ice in Alaska. The man has a down-home aw-shucks kind of demeanor that I found quite charming. I&#8217;m a middle-aged guy that has a lot of time in the winter and a little bit of extra money to play with, so my hobby was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-36163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NPR interviewed John Reeves, the artist behind a 160-foot-tall mountain of ice in Alaska. The man has a down-home aw-shucks kind of demeanor that I found quite charming. I&#8217;m a middle-aged guy that has a lot of time in the winter and a little bit of extra money to play with, so my hobby was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}