{"id":86,"date":"2006-05-13T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-05-13T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T22:29:40","slug":"easter-island-moai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/13\/easter-island-moai\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Island Moai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m thinking about Easter Island a lot these days, as I&#039;m setting a scene in my novel there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/moai6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Picture of some Easter Island statues called moai that I found on a cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysteriousplaces.com\/Easter_Island\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Easter Island site<\/a>.  They&#039;re on the slopes of Rano Raraku, an extinct volcano; they quarried stone for the monoliths or moai here.  The stone is basaltic tuff, that is, stuck-together foamy clinkers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/moai_rano_raraku.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s another picture of the Rano Raraku site that I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moai\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/moaisurf.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m starting on a painting of a surfin&#039; moai.  Next week I&#039;ll add the board and clean up the shading.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m thinking about Easter Island a lot these days, as I&#039;m setting a scene in my novel there. Picture of some Easter Island statues called moai that I found on a cool Easter Island site. They&#039;re on the slopes of Rano Raraku, an extinct volcano; they quarried stone for the monoliths or moai here. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}