{"id":2824,"date":"2008-08-13T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/skybison-included-for-scale\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T08:58:09","slug":"skybison-included-for-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/skybison-included-for-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky-Bison Included for Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I have been watching DVD&#8217;s of the show <cite>Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/cite> via Netflix for a while now. Around the originally predicted due date for SteelyKid (that is, a week and a half before she actually arrived), we were joking about what she could possibly be waiting for. During one episode, she squirmed really impressively during a scene featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appa\">Appa the sky bison<\/a>, and I suggested that she was holding out for a bison of her own.<\/p>\n<p>I made a sweep through local toy stores, but failed to locate a bison. Of course, they do sell plush bison on the Internet, so I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.nickjr.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2671667\">&#8220;sixteen-inch&#8221; plush Appa<\/a>. The scare quotes are because&#8230; Well, here&#8217;s a picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0be92a7444dc895b255a6694e73a4621-sm_appa_scale.jpg\" alt=\"i-0be92a7444dc895b255a6694e73a4621-sm_appa_scale.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind, SteelyKid is 20 inches in length. I&#8217;m not sure what dimension of the ginormous bison is 16&#8243;&#8211; across the horns, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>At Kate&#8217;s baby shower, we got a great big teddy bear, and we had been thinking of using it as a standard reference for a photo series of SteelyKid (one picture a week as she grows). Now I&#8217;m leaning toward using Appa as our reference plush animal instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate and I have been watching DVD&#8217;s of the show Avatar: The Last Airbender via Netflix for a while now. Around the originally predicted due date for SteelyKid (that is, a week and a half before she actually arrived), we were joking about what she could possibly be waiting for. During one episode, she squirmed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/13\/skybison-included-for-scale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sky-Bison Included for Scale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}