{"id":428,"date":"2005-08-20T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-20T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2005\/08\/guys-gotta-love-em.html"},"modified":"2005-08-20T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T14:33:00","slug":"guys-gotta-love-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/08\/guys-gotta-love-em.html","title":{"rendered":"Guys &#8211; Gotta Love Em&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Amsterdam (aren&#8217;t drugs legal there?), comes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/0,2106,3379491a4560,00.html\">story <\/a>of a man who built a Viking ship from 15 million ice cream sticks.  According to the article, this is the largest sailing ship ever built from ice cream sticks &#8211; which clearly implies there have been others.  The small birch sticks are apparently held in place by glue, which suggests that there is a shortage of duct tape in the Netherlands.  And speaking of guys doing odd things, 25 of them will now get on this mighty ship and actually sail it.<\/p>\n<p>And while you women readers shake your heads in dismay, may I suggest that there is probably a woman behind this whole project.  This guy&#8217;s wife got him out of the house for two years doing something that didn&#8217;t cost squat, while she had reason and encouragement to scarf all the ice cream she could possibly eat.  Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Amsterdam (aren&#8217;t drugs legal there?), comes the story of a man who built a Viking ship from 15 million<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/08\/guys-gotta-love-em.html\" title=\"Read Guys &#8211; Gotta Love Em&#8217;\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}