{"id":162,"date":"2005-09-26T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2005-09-26T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T15:53:05","slug":"giant-italian-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Giant Italian bunny!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is precisely as it sounds, the Italians have made a huge bunny. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1541732.html\">http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1541732.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 200 feet long and has been placed by a group of artists on a mountainside in the Piedmont region of Italy where it is intended to remain for the next twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that troubles me about this is that it&#8217;s knitted. Do knitted items usually survive for 20 years on the side on mountains? The artists want people to climb onto it and relax, but surely it will get wet pretty easily and take a long time to dry out at an altitude of 5,000 feet? I&#8217;m not sure that they&#8217;ve thought this through.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the possibility that human civilisation will end before the bunny is removed, prompting future archaeologists of the next earth civilisation to wonder what bizarre end-times cult tried to stave off the end of the world by building a huge bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only person who sees things like this and wonders what future archaeologists will make of it all? We&#8217;ve probably destroyed the chances that decent written records will survive through the adoption of computers for nearly everything, so all they&#8217;ll have to go on is a multitude of plastic bags and giant bunny fibre remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is precisely as it sounds, the Italians have made a huge bunny. Hurrah! http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1541732.html It&#8217;s 200 feet long and has been placed by a group of artists on a mountainside in the Piedmont region of Italy where it is intended to remain for the next twenty years. The thing that troubles me about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant Italian bunny!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-2C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}