{"id":1781,"date":"2011-05-07T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T01:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:20","slug":"whittle-gnome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/whittle-gnome\/","title":{"rendered":"Whittle Gnome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Out of the mouths of babes&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whittle_gnome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1780 alignright\" title=\"whittle gnome\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/whittle_gnome-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"photo of whittle gnome carving\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leave it to the youngest of our grandchildren (let&#8217; call him little &#8220;Georgie&#8221;), to explain to everyone else about last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=1694\">Christmas ornaments<\/a>: &#8220;Grandpa hasn&#8217;t learned to carve eyes yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep! Got me!<\/p>\n<p>So, when I decided to mimic the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/woodbeecarver.com\/whittle-dwarfs\/whittle-dwarfs\">Whittle Dwarfs<\/a>&#8221; carved by Don Stephenson and featured on Don Mertz&#8217;s &#8220;WoodBeeCarver&#8221; site, I added eyes. It&#8217;s a cute little gnome, just under 2 inches tall. &#8230; and it has eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Out of the mouths of babes&#8230;&#8221; Leave it to the youngest of our grandchildren (let&#8217; call him little &#8220;Georgie&#8221;), to explain to everyone else about last year&#8217;s Christmas ornaments: &#8220;Grandpa hasn&#8217;t learned to carve eyes yet.&#8221; Yep! Got me! So, when I decided to mimic the &#8220;Whittle Dwarfs&#8221; carved by Don Stephenson and featured on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-woodcarving","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}