{"id":54660,"date":"2015-02-12T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=54660"},"modified":"2015-02-12T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:09:26","slug":"talk-about-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54660","title":{"rendered":"Talk about junk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you&#8217;re a Raising Jane regular, you&#8217;ll remember that my magazine designer, Carol, has a new hobby: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53611\">junk sculptures<\/a>. Carol&#8217;s creations are little, anywhere from\u00a0an inch to\u00a0a foot high, keeping them small enough to glue together. But look what she discovered while trolling for inspiration on Pinterest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54663\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54663\" class=\"wp-image-54663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/junk-elephant.jpg\" alt=\"junk-elephant\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo, hitfull.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hitfull.com\/news\/nset.php?set=Giant-Robot-Elephant-France\">HitFull.com<\/a>, this baby is five times the size of a real elephant, weighs about 45 tons, and carries\u00a0about 50\u00a0passengers at a time. It was created for &#8220;Machines of the Isle of Nantes,&#8221; a\u00a0street performance festival in Nantes, France, from mostly recycled materials, and is fully articulated, moving with the help of 22 people who man hydraulics inside the statue. &#8220;The Great Elephant,&#8221; as he is called, can even trumpet like a real elephant, flap his ears, and spray water from his trunk. Watch him in motion:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7imhmmLD3To?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Raising Jane regular, you&#8217;ll remember that my magazine designer, Carol, has a new hobby: junk sculptures. Carol&#8217;s creations are little, anywhere from\u00a0an inch to\u00a0a foot high, keeping them small enough to glue together. But look what she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/54660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}