{"id":907,"date":"2006-04-12T02:57:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T06:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=907"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:04:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:04:47","slug":"and-we-talked-about-paul-bunyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/907\/and-we-talked-about-paul-bunyan\/","title":{"rendered":"And we talked about Paul Bunyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paulbunyunflatsig\"<\/a>
\nPaul Bunyan with gun<\/strong>
\nDigital painting based on photo by artiist
\n20 by 13 inches approx
\nCopyright J Kearns
\n2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n

Detail.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>[clear]<\/p>\n

The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with close access to snow as snowmobiles were being sold). I looked at the listing of Paul Bunyan (aka Muffler Man) and mutant\/hybrid statues at Roadside Amercia<\/a> and I don’t see this guy there. If anyone knows where he was located, please let me know. I didn’t notice there being many of these statues with guns. Most have axes or carry nothing at all any longer.<\/p>\n

Wan’t I positioned just perfectly in relation to the Big Guy. Like he’s looking right at you.<\/p>\n

And of course, while working on this painting I ended up reading some Paul Bunyan tall tales to H.o.p. I had forgotten everything but his being a big guy and having Babe the Blue Ox as a pet.<\/p>\n

Paul Bunyan’s favorite thing to do is clear whole mountain tops of trees in one fell sweep.<\/p>\n

Which meant of course I showed H.o.p. pictures of clearcutting and we talked about that for a while.<\/p>\n

“But trees are the lungs of the earth,” H.o.p. said, and like many eight-year-olds who understand trees are the lungs of the earth he announced the thing to do was to plant some trees. I said that was a good idea and we would get him one to plant somewhere. He will want to see the tree he plants rather than sending money to someone to plant a tree for him.<\/p>\n

“Why did they give Paul Bunyan a gun?” H.o.p. asked.<\/p>\n

I dunno.<\/p>\n

My reference pic.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Bunyan with gun Digital painting based on photo by artiist 20 by 13 inches approx Copyright J Kearns 2006 Enlargement Detail. [clear] The photograph on which the painting is based was taken back in the early 90s and I can’t remember where but it would have been either Colorado or Wyoming (definitely someplace with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[424,422,61],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-paintings","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-homeschool-2","tag-scenes-for-quiet-walls-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}