{"id":36633,"date":"2020-08-21T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:47:08","slug":"the-glass-float-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/the-glass-float-project\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;the glass float project&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36638\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36638\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/glassfloatproject2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"6465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/glassfloatproject2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/glassfloatproject2-27x300.jpg 27w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ummmmm,<\/em> a treasure hunt for glass orbs!? Oh my word, I NEED to go to here. <em>Where<\/em> is this, you ask? Block Island, 12 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. <em>What<\/em> is it?\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassfloatproject.com\/\">The Glass Float Project<\/a><\/em>, which was\u00a0started by American artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassfloatproject.com\/about-the-artist.html\">Eben Horton<\/a>\u00a0in 2012. Here&#8217;s the gist:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Hundreds of glass balls &#8211; similar to the glass net floats used by Japanese fishermen &#8211; are made at Eben\u2019s Studio in Wakefield, RI and are randomly hidden across the Island. Some are hidden along the beaches of the island and some are carefully placed along the island\u2019s miles of Greenway Trails that are maintained by the Nature Conservancy. The rules are simple&#8230; If you find one, Keep it! If you find another, please leave it so that someone else can find it. {We ask that if you find one, please register your find with the Block Island Tourism Council. Registering your float helps us keep track of how many floats are out \u2018in the wild\u2019.}&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How fantastic is <em>that?!<\/em> And of course, for 2020, Eben has created a very special orb for the hunt&#8230; &#8216;<em>The Rona&#8217;<\/em>, because yeah, you know.<\/p>\n<p><em>{via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/20\/style\/orbivores-block-island.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&amp;smtyp=cur\">The New York Times<\/a>, Bio photo by\u00a0Jillian Freyer for The New York Times}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummmmm, a treasure hunt for glass orbs!? Oh my word, I NEED to go to here. Where is this, you ask? Block Island, 12 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. What is it?\u00a0 The Glass Float Project, which was\u00a0started by American artist\u00a0Eben Horton\u00a0in 2012. Here&#8217;s the gist: &#8220;Hundreds of glass balls &#8211; similar to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,549],"tags":[936,934,935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36642,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions\/36642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}