{"id":1510,"date":"2011-08-24T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2024-06-23T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T14:08:17","slug":"the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth Wonder of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just an hour from the Twin Cities lies a site that is definitely cooler than the Colossus, more magnificent than the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (who’s heard of that anyway?), and nearly as charged with New Age Energy as the Great Pyramid. Plus it is toddler-friendly, has pink picnic tables, and is totally entirely FREE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Refrigerator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At first glance this mid-size, older model fridge might not appear to be in the same class as the Hanging Gardens, but look more closely:<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Are you kidding me? In post-Jerry-Garcia America there’s an unlocked, unattended refrigerator filled with Freezee Pops and a “Suggested Donation” sign? Even after wandering the rest of this amazing, soul-salving site, I think this fridge did the most to reaffirm my faith in humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, enough shenanigans. It’s taken me a while to post the pics, but earlier this month we drove out to the Franconia Sculpture Park<\/a> with Griffin and had a fabulous day. For those of you not in the know, it’s a 20-acre site in the middle of nowhere (by urban standards\u2014cornfields all ’round), filled with incredible, humongous modern sculpture. Places like this make Minnesota oh-so-easy to fall in love with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some of our favorite pictures. Click to expand.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Alas, we didn’t write down the names of these things. But isn’t this cool?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Griffin was SO excited!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Wind socks! (Griffin loves some wind socks.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Metal thing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Not tornado safe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Most Amazing Thing Ever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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From another angle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Lots of happy play on the Most Amazing Thing Ever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Just an hour from the Twin Cities lies a site that is definitely cooler than the Colossus, more magnificent than the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (who’s heard of that anyway?), and nearly as charged with New Age Energy as the Great Pyramid. Plus it is toddler-friendly, has pink picnic tables, and is totally entirely FREE. See … Continue reading The Eighth Wonder of the World<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[3,54],"tags":[79,51,109],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","category-photo","tag-griffin","tag-pictures","tag-summer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}