{"id":8644,"date":"2024-01-15T08:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2024-01-16T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:56:00","slug":"i-got-your-blowtorch-right-here-maam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/i-got-your-blowtorch-right-here-maam\/","title":{"rendered":"I got your blowtorch right here, ma’am…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So my son came over with his family yesterday to visit his koi in the back yard. He keeps them in a pond I dug for him by hand because he had to move from the home he owned into another town for business and couldn’t take his beloved fish with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Man this is a long set-up for the picture, and probably nor worth the getting there.  But since we’re already halfway in…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have four grandsons altogether, two of which are my son’s.  The younger one was playing with some Hot Wheels and such that Mary keeps here for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wrote this about it on Facebook yesterday to her friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“So the younger grandson took the car he was playing with and dunked it into his ice cream!!!!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She got a few laughing emoticons, and replied to those reactions, thusly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No not funny.  Now my red camp chair needs a blowtorch to get clean!!!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it this morning and ran right off to AI to create the picture you see here, with the caption above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now you understand where my ideas come from and how art is made around here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Totally worth the long explanation, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my son came over with his family yesterday to visit his koi in the back yard. He keeps them in a pond I dug for him by hand because he had to move from the home he owned into another town for business and couldn’t take his beloved fish with him. (Man this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-2fq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}