{"id":2657,"date":"2007-08-08T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2007-08-08T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:59:00","slug":"2657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/142012244\/\">Cynical-C<\/a>, I learn of a <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/08\/08\/1999202.htm?section=justin\">giant Lego man washed up on Dutch beach<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A giant, smiling Lego man has been fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre tall model, which had a yellow head and blue torso.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you playing at home outside of the land of metric measurement, that&#8217;s just over 8 feet tall. That&#8217;s a mighty big Lego man.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a link in the sidebar to that story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/07\/11\/1975801.htm\">a giant squid<\/a> washed up in Tasmania. It was 6 meters long, or close to two and a half times bigger than the Lego man, but I still think the Lego man could have taken it. Now, if it had been a Lego squid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I think I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=4783\">this image<\/a> of it better than the one I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/capperblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/man-or-lego-man.html\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cynical-C, I learn of a giant Lego man washed up on Dutch beach: A giant, smiling Lego man has been fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort. Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre tall model, which had a yellow head and blue torso. For those of you playing &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2657\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}