{"id":14460,"date":"2017-10-26T22:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=14460"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:51:33","slug":"superlanterns-last-all-summer-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/superlanterns-last-all-summer-long\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperLanterns Last All Summer Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m Scottish. For Hallowen, it’s traditional to make lanterns out of turnips. How this was done before power tools, I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

In 2015, I decided to make a traditional neep (that’s Scots for turnip) lantern. Yes, I used a holesaw, and turnip goo went everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Neep Lantern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Age: 0 days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It looked pretty good on the day:<\/p>\n

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Neep Lantern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Age: 1 day (Halloween)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike pumpkins, turnips last. I left it out in the front garden.<\/p>\n

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Neep Lantern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Age: 43 days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It went very <\/em>wizened:<\/p>\n

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Neep Lantern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Age: 124 days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It disappeared towards the end of May 2016. This was the last time I saw it:<\/p>\n

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Neep Lantern \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Age: 203 days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Scottish. For Hallowen, it’s traditional to make lanterns out of turnips. How this was done before power tools, I’ll never know. In 2015, I decided to make a traditional neep (that’s Scots for turnip) lantern. Yes, I used a holesaw, and turnip goo went everywhere. It looked pretty good on the day: Unlike pumpkins, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[1848,2227],"class_list":["post-14460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-country","tag-halloween","tag-neep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3Le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14466,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14460\/revisions\/14466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}