{"id":1694,"date":"2012-01-29T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T22:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2012-01-29T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:14:36","slug":"winter-carnival-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/winter-carnival-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Carnival 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the morning at the winter carnival in downtown Saint Paul. It was a good day for it: chilly, but sunny with little wind. In addition to a lot of amazing ice sculptures (and the chance to watch the artists at work), there was a high-tech angle too: a robotic snowplow race! Fresh donuts and hot chocolate were welcome too.<\/p>\n<p>Forgot to bring the good camera, so these are from the iPhone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1695\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112630_001a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1695 \" title=\"Ice Throne\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112630_001a.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112630_001a.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112630_001a.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112630_001a.jpg?w=851&amp;ssl=1 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffin on the Ice Throne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1696\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1696 \" title=\"Ice Bar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?w=1728&amp;ssl=1 1728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_112831_006a.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1700 \" title=\"Ice Sculpture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?w=1566&amp;ssl=1 1566w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114743_022a.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1699\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1699 \" title=\"Robotic Snowplow Competition\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?w=1779&amp;ssl=1 1779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/20120129_114213_020a.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew&#39;s highlight: the robotic snowplow competition!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent the morning at the winter carnival in downtown Saint Paul. It was a good day for it: chilly, but sunny with little wind. In addition to a lot of amazing ice sculptures (and the chance to watch the artists at work), there was a high-tech angle too: a robotic snowplow race! Fresh donuts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/winter-carnival-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Carnival 2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[79,40],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-griffin","tag-griffin","tag-photo-shoots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}