{"id":1383,"date":"2007-05-17T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:01:46","slug":"indeed-virginia-you-can-nail-jello-to-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1383\/indeed-virginia-you-can-nail-jello-to-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Indeed, Virginia, You CAN Nail Jello To A Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/502650360\/\" title=\"Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/205\/502650360_efd2146293_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"637\" alt=\"Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIndeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall<br \/>\nAKA &#8220;Jello Christ&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is how art works.  First <a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1378\">Stelarc  makes an art installation of himself<\/a>, hanging himself from hooks, appending an ear to his arm.  Then H.o.p. says, upon glimpsing a pic of Stelarc&#8217;s ear, &#8220;Let&#8217;s make a jello man!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>So, he makes a jello man that falls to pieces because it wasn&#8217;t made from the <a href=\"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/2007\/05\/16\/the-jello-man-tragedy\/\">Jiggler recipe<\/a> (two big boxes and only a couple cups of boiling water). <\/p>\n<p>By which point, it occurred to me, that if you CAN nail jello to a wall, as has been proven on the internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, I formed a plan.<\/p>\n<p>And it worked.  <\/p>\n<p>And there you have it.  Two boxes of jello and only a couple of cups boiling water does the trick.  I nailed Jelloman to the wall.  Well, it was to a board actually.  But I have several pics of its standing against the wall to prove that I did it, in case anyone thinks it&#8217;s lying on the floor and not standing.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can get down to writing for the evening.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  I see I&#8217;m getting suddenly a fair number of visitors to this post tonight, courtesy the presidential debate (what a strange world it is) and  a poster at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/75477\/Like-nailing-Jello-to-the-wall\">Metafilter<\/a> wondering as to the veracity of McCain&#8217;s statement on the difficulty of nailing jello to a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Below is another shot of our Jello man, showing that the board was indeed upright (in case there are doubters).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/2103388668\/\" title=\"IMG_4835 by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2263\/2103388668_1e281549db.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_4835\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jello Man stood up quite well and probably would have lasted a little while longer than the few minutes we sat happily ogling our achievement before we decided what&#8217;s done is done and over with and cleaned things up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall AKA &#8220;Jello Christ&#8221; Which is how art works. First Stelarc makes an art installation of himself, hanging himself from hooks, appending an ear to his arm. Then H.o.p. says, upon glimpsing a pic of Stelarc&#8217;s ear, &#8220;Let&#8217;s make a jello man!&#8221; So, he makes a jello [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[424,27],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}