{"id":444,"date":"2009-02-03T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-02-03T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T16:41:30","slug":"matthew-the-archaeologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/matthew-the-archaeologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew the Archaeologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, Nanna and Poppa (Mom &amp; Dad) got Matthew a gift that would let Matthew &#8220;dig&#8221; for dinosaur bones. It was a block of sand of some kind, and there was a toy dinosaur inside in pieces. It would have taken Matthew a few years to chissel out the pieces as they were in there pretty good. Even Lisa wasn&#8217;t able to help much. The set came with &#8220;tools&#8221;, but I even had to get out a real hammer and chissel to get the &#8220;bones&#8221; out. Regardless, Matthew had a great time, and we made a huge mess (you can see stuff all over the table and floor). Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew &#8220;digging&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"20090126_mattthew_01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_01.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090126_mattthew_01\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_01.jpg?resize=450%2C337 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_01.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see lines from Matthew&#8217;s goggles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_02.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"20090126_mattthew_02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_02.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090126_mattthew_02\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_02.jpg?resize=450%2C337 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_02.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the raptor that we put together with the bones we dug out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_03.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-447\" title=\"20090126_mattthew_03\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_03.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"20090126_mattthew_03\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_03.jpg?resize=450%2C337 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090126_mattthew_03.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, Nanna and Poppa (Mom &amp; Dad) got Matthew a gift that would let Matthew &#8220;dig&#8221; for dinosaur bones. It was a block of sand of some kind, and there was a toy dinosaur inside in pieces. It would have taken Matthew a few years to chissel out the pieces as they were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[58,54,53,57,59,33,55,56],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-holidays","tag-archaeologist","tag-archaeology","tag-dinosaur","tag-dinosaur-bones","tag-goggles","tag-matthew","tag-nanna","tag-poppa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}