{"id":1597,"date":"2010-08-07T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-08-07\/1597"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T02:28:04","slug":"monster-marshmallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-08-07\/1597","title":{"rendered":"Monster Marshmallow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1597'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"035773\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_035773.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_035773_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Monster Marshmallow -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i035773\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\ntitle=\"Monster Marshmallow -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_035773.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_035773.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Monster Marshmallow<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Anthony squashed a bowl of marshmallows together to make one big, glee-inducing monster marshmallow.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"035774\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_035774.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_035774_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nid=\"i035774\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_035774.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_035774.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>First Bite<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"035776\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_035776.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_035776_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Uh, Okay.... Only Bite -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i035776\"\ntitle=\"Uh, Okay.... 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Once <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> it clear that\n<span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> just asking him to hold it in <span class='nobr'>a certain<\/span> way, and not to hold <span class='nobr'>a pose,<\/span>\nthe real bite ensued...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"035790\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_035790.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_035790_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Real Satisfaction -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i035790\"\ntitle=\"Real Satisfaction -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>320 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 4000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_035790.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_035790.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'><i>Real<\/i> Satisfaction<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony squashed a bowl of marshmallows together to make one big, glee-inducing monster marshmallow.<\/p> <p>Cousin Josh soon followed suit, with a smaller monster marshmallow more appropriate to his four years. I asked whether I could take a picture, to which he replied \"No, thank you.\", and I gave him a sad look and said that I wanted to show a picture of his marshmallow to his Daddy (who didn't make the trip up this time), and after a bit Josh relented and displayed his creation for the camera...<\/p> <p>I don't normally ask the kids about photos, but when I do, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}