{"id":3206,"date":"2008-11-02T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T01:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:36:17","slug":"jack-hole-lantern-pumpkin-carving-with-a-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/jack-hole-lantern-pumpkin-carving-with-a-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack-hole-lantern &#8211; Pumpkin Carving with a Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pumpkin-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-710\" title=\"Jack-hole-lantern - Pumpkin Carving with a Drill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pumpkin-2008.jpg\" alt=\"Jack-hole-lantern - Pumpkin Carving with a Drill\" width=\"500\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one ain&#8217;t holding water. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed when I finished making it. But the people have spoken! It got a lot of compliments this Halloween from the large number of visitors we had. Halloween is big deal in our neighborhood. People come from all over to trick-or-treat here. I&#8217;m not sure why. The streets are jammed with drivers parking their cars anywhere they can. There are police patrolling on Segways! There was even a police car going up and down the street with its lighting flashing and blasting &#8220;Monster Mash.&#8221; One of our neighbors had a sign on his door by 8 PM that read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Too Late!<br \/>\nWe had 424 treat bags and now they&#8217;re gone.<br \/>\nSee you next year. Maybe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I used a drill to make this jack-o-lantern. I started with a big hole saw (hard to get the core out after each hole), a forstner bit (fast clean cut, but throws pumpkin chips everywhere), a spade bit, and a couple smaller drill bits (they can leave a ragged edge on the surface). There was no plan. I just freestyled around the pumpkin until it looked done. I put the opening on the bottom so I could work around the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one ain&#8217;t holding water. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed when I finished making it. But the people have spoken! It got a lot of compliments this Halloween from the large number of visitors we had. Halloween is big deal in our neighborhood. People come from all over to trick-or-treat here. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,353],"tags":[392,446],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handmade","category-tracy","tag-halloween","tag-handmade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}