{"id":193,"date":"2007-12-23T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-09-10T08:28:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T13:28:45","slug":"santa-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Santa Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/santa_3.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Santa Carving #3\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" align=\"right\" \/>Yes, I am still carving and hand painting. Here is (Sleepy) Santa #3. I am getting a bit better (I think) with each new face. I also decided to play around with Photo Shop and do a cool background\u00a0edit for this picture. The face is nearly the same size as the other carvings I have posted here.<\/p>\n<p>The background wasn&#8217;t really staged for this shot. It is the mantle in the living room. I just walked up and fired off a few close shots with the Sony digital. This Santa is leaning against a very colorful glass Santa like the old fashioned glass tree ornaments&#8230; only much larger. So as not to let the background detract from the carving I decided to play a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria didn&#8217;t want these carvings to look &#8220;spiffy new&#8221; so there is a little intentional &#8220;aging&#8221; and debris to make it look like its been hanging around for quite awhile. It really doesn&#8217;t show up to much in this photo.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy a Merry Christmas! ~ Dan&#8217;l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I am still carving and hand painting. Here is (Sleepy) Santa #3. I am getting a bit better (I think) with each new face. I also decided to play around with Photo Shop and do a cool background\u00a0edit for this picture. The face is nearly the same size as the other carvings I have posted here. The background wasn&#8217;t really staged for this shot. It is the mantle in the living room. I just&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15,16,19],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodcarving","tag-carving","tag-hobby","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}