{"id":1990,"date":"2012-01-23T09:53:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2012-01-23T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:05:48","slug":"awesome-whale-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/01\/23\/awesome-whale-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome whale sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/complexify\/4795367532\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1991\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/01\/23\/awesome-whale-sculpture\/mocha_dick\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mocha_dick.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mocha_dick\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mocha_dick.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1991\" title=\"mocha_dick\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mocha_dick.jpg\" alt=\"Mocha Dick whale sculpture\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mocha_dick.jpg 400w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mocha_dick-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/complexify\/4795367532\/\">David Gilford\/complexify @ Flickr<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; thanks for the CC license)<\/p>\n<p>This beautiful sculpture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mocha_Dick\">notorious albino sperm whale, Mocha Dick<\/a>\u00a0is by the artist <a href=\"http:\/\/fleisher-ollmangallery.com\/artists.php?id=24&amp;page=1&amp;img=0\">Tristin Lowe<\/a>, made in collaboration with the\u00a0Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. It&#8217;s huge! &#8211; 52 feet long and 10 feet tall &#8211; and made of industrial wool <a href=\"http:\/\/wcma.williams.edu\/behind-the-scenes\/the-whale-is-coming\/\">pieced over an inflatable vinyl understructure<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmfa.state.va.us\/Exhibitions\/Tristin-Lowe\/\">gallery<\/a>\u00a0at the Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts shows some other great images including a close-up the barnacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo credit: David Gilford\/complexify @ Flickr\u00a0&#8211; thanks for the CC license) This beautiful sculpture of the notorious albino sperm whale, Mocha Dick\u00a0is by the artist Tristin Lowe, made in collaboration with the\u00a0Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. It&#8217;s huge! &#8211; 52 feet long and 10 feet tall &#8211; and made of industrial wool pieced over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[1188,1187,1361,1190,1189],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-sculpture","tag-albino","tag-mocha-dick","tag-sculpture","tag-tristian-lowe","tag-whale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-w6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}