{"id":3196,"date":"2008-08-01T14:05:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2018-11-19T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:31:08","slug":"mars-sigler-monster-buddy-plush-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/mars-sigler-monster-buddy-plush-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Sigler &#8212; &#8220;Monster Buddy&#8221; Plush Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/marsmonster2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"Mars Sigler -- Monster Buddy Plush Toy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/marsmonster2-500.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Sigler -- Monster Buddy Plush Toy\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eleven year old (almost 12) renaissance man Mars Sigler has embraced a new medium: handmade monster toys. He is calling this product line &#8220;Monster Buddies.&#8221; The fellow pictured here is named &#8220;Marky&#8221; and he is the second original, sounds better than &#8220;number two,&#8221; in a series Master Sigler has dubbed &#8220;Locker Buddies.&#8221; Toys in the &#8220;Locker Buddy&#8221; line are small enough to fit into a school locker.<\/p>\n<p>Mars learned his pattern making and sewing skills from his mother, but the creative concepts are all his. Always innovative, Mars opted with &#8220;Marky&#8221; to put the seams on display, essentially turning the toy inside out, even though the fabric isn&#8217;t. The light blue element below the simple line mouth is actually fabric drool.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview today Mars revealed that he intends to produce more &#8220;Monster Buddies&#8221; and begin selling them in various outlets in the near future. Master Sigler said at this time he has no plans to sell the first two &#8220;Monster Buddy&#8221; creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven year old (almost 12) renaissance man Mars Sigler has embraced a new medium: handmade monster toys. He is calling this product line &#8220;Monster Buddies.&#8221; The fellow pictured here is named &#8220;Marky&#8221; and he is the second original, sounds better than &#8220;number two,&#8221; in a series Master Sigler has dubbed &#8220;Locker Buddies.&#8221; Toys in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,36,1],"tags":[373,422,429],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handmade","category-mars","category-uncategorized","tag-craft","tag-sewing","tag-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}