{"id":1152,"date":"2013-04-12T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:30:24","slug":"4th-and-5th-class-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"4th and 5th Class Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were inspired to construct these after viewing pictures of sculptures by 20th century Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti sculpted hundreds of stick people in different poses.His sculptures varied in sizes, from larger than life figures to figures that could fit inside a matchbox!!<\/p>\n<h6>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We first used pipe-cleaners to create the basic shapes we wanted. The next step involved m\u00e1rla, which we used for the base of our figures. The weight of the m\u00e1rla allowed us to stand our figures upright. It was quite tricky to find a suitable pose to allow them to balance properly. For the final stage we used strips of tin-foil to entirely cover the figures. This gives them a nice polished finish. We hope you like them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were inspired to construct these after viewing pictures of sculptures by 20th century Swiss artist, Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti sculpted hundreds of stick people in different poses.His sculptures varied in sizes, from larger than life figures to figures that could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/?p=1152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgabrielsns.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}