{"id":470,"date":"2008-04-17T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/17\/giant-mozzies\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T06:08:56","slug":"giant-mozzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/17\/giant-mozzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Mozzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a tradition of giant roadside attractions in our culture, but I haven&#8217;t seen one of these before. An odd thing to celebrate with commemorative sculptures, I would&#8217;ve thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mossie2.jpg\" title=\"Mozzie 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mossie2.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzie 1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(image credit: Artem)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>And to add a further weirdness, this one (by sculptor Valery Chaliy from Noyabrsk, Siberia) is a mecha-mozzie!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mossie1.jpg\" title=\"Mozzie 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mossie1.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzie 2\" height=\"343\" width=\"456\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ng.ru\/ngregions\/2007-06-25\/16_komar.html\">ng.ru<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a giant can of Buzz-Off just to the right of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/04\/argument-to-beethovens-5th.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Roasted Blend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a tradition of giant roadside attractions in our culture, but I haven&#8217;t seen one of these before. An odd thing to celebrate with commemorative sculptures, I would&#8217;ve thought. (image credit: Artem) And to add a further weirdness, this one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/17\/giant-mozzies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}