{"id":4795,"date":"2015-09-01T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2015-09-28T06:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T10:26:26","slug":"booklovers-sand-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"Booklovers&#8217; Sand Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4796\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4796\" class=\" wp-image-4796\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2795085483_cd49b75880_z.jpg?resize=320%2C475\" alt=\"Alice in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, sand sculpture\" width=\"320\" height=\"475\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice (photo: Andy Field, creative commons license)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the last weekend of summer approaches, a fitting tribute to two combined passions\u2014going to the beach and reading\u2014has been assembled by Kelly Jensen in this photo-essay for <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2015\/08\/28\/day-beach-bookish-sand-sculptures\/?utm_source=Book+Riot+Subscriptions&amp;utm_campaign=044bb92d08-RIOTRUNDOWN_SUNDAY&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_ffcca77bbb-044bb92d08-320350249&amp;mc_cid=044bb92d08&amp;mc_eid=8d5c6b7c97\">BookRiot<\/a>, showing how sand sculptors around the world have interpreted the scenes of literature\u2014from Gulliver to Alice\u2014in that doomed-to-destruction medium, sand.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what the writers who created the books that inspired these creations might think of them. As they labored over a page, did they worry that their words would be as ephemeral as these amazing creations? Or that the tide of public opinion would soon wash them away?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoy summer\u2019s last fling!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the last weekend of summer approaches, a fitting tribute to two combined passions\u2014going to the beach and reading\u2014has been assembled by Kelly Jensen in this photo-essay for BookRiot, showing how sand sculptors around the world have interpreted the scenes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=4795\">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":{"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":"Booklovers' Sand Sculptures - an end-of-summer tribute","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122,35,104],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-real-life","category-the-morgue","tag-creativity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1fl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}