{"id":4100,"date":"2010-10-28T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2010-10-28T22:36:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T03:36:37","slug":"a-sheet-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/a-sheet-in-the-wind","title":{"rendered":"A sheet in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag15.jpg\" class=\"imgpop alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag15-271x350.jpg\" alt=\"Apparition\" title=\"Apparition\" width=\"271\" height=\"350\" class=\"imgleft size-medium wp-image-4102\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag15-271x350.jpg 271w, http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag15.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>Still working out the bugs for our &#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what to call it &#8230; Aerial Boom Ghost, Specter Sail, Meandering Kelpie?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically a 10&#8242; lever on a swivel.  A witch\/ spook\/whatever is mounted to one end of the arm.  On the other end is a counterweight that raises the marionette up to 15&#8242; in the air.  <\/p>\n<p>The whole rig rotates horizontally 360 degrees.  Paint the contraption black and it disappears under haunt lighting.  The whirling wraith follows the wind.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag16.jpg\" class=\"imgpop alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag16-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gust of Wind\" title=\"Gust of Wind\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"imgleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4101\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag18.jpg\" class=\"imgpop alignnone\" rel=\"imgpop[1]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/spookyblog\/spblogpix\/2010\/10\/2010ag18-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Meandering Kelpie\" title=\"Meandering Kelpie\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"imgleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4114\" \/><\/a>There are plenty of refinements to be made, but it&#8217;s fun to watch our scratch model range around its circle, stare at something for a while down the street, and then wheel off in some other direction.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how well it performs this weekend.  Sure hope there&#8217;s a breeze.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:left;\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still working out the bugs for our &#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what to call it &#8230; Aerial Boom Ghost, Specter Sail, Meandering Kelpie? It&#8217;s basically a 10&#8242; lever on a swivel. A witch\/ spook\/whatever is mounted to one end of the arm. On the other end is a counterweight that raises the marionette up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[263,262,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spookyblue.com\/spookyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}