{"id":74229,"date":"2020-09-11T21:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=74229"},"modified":"2020-09-14T22:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:25:17","slug":"friday-night-delayed-fire-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/09\/11\/friday-night-delayed-fire-and-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night (delayed) – Fire and water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Friday was our Fire and Water  festival (so Sorry for the long delay in getting these pictures posted ) We’d origiinally  planned it for July to celebrate Bastille day.. but the weather didn’t cooperate.. so we delayed to lasting weekend.   Gizzo, rebar and I headed out to Woods island on Wed. ,  Thursday was a setup day with about 10 of us there..  ..by Friday morning more people started  showing up.. and we were in full prep for the nights burn
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the mystical fire duck ‘ducminster fuller” arrives on the island.. its ,made of woven willow and cloth soaked in beeswax and linseed oil.\/. it’s based on a na ancient boat called a coracle\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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king Louis awaits his real head\"\"<\/p>\n

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preparing the pyro\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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checking out louiies head.. hey.. does that look lie anyone you know ? \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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ready to burn \"\"<\/p>\n

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the duck is lit.. and takes hours to catch. that’s on purpose.. no idea when t will burn.. but it was so beautiful !!!\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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duane starts with some rope dart.. and giizzo make a few remarks.. then we’re on to the burn !\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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o dodntget any pictures ofloiius catching fire as I was too busy using the buttons to light him.\/\/ he burn beautifully\u2026 Pyro Tek worked pretty well except for the main event\u2026 The rocket to launch his head off didn’t work. I was pretty bummedStill not sure what happened but it still was a beautiful burn. \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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then it was time to crank up the roofer.. I burned through a whole  tank of propane in less than an hour\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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then people started showing that the duck was beginning to burn.. we all rushed over.. it was so beautiful !\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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the people were beautiful too\"\"<\/p>\n

the rest of the night was pretty magical.. dancing, drinking, talking.. it was beautiful..<\/p>\n

were doing this again next year !<\/p>\n

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nite all,. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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Last Friday was our Fire and Water  festival (so Sorry for the long delay in getting these pictures posted ) We’d origiinally  planned it for July to celebrate Bastille day.. but the weather didn’t cooperate.. so we delayed to lasting weekend.   Gizzo, rebar and I headed out to Woods island on Wed. ,  Thursday … Continue reading Friday night (delayed) – Fire and water<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74296,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74229\/revisions\/74296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}