{"id":2087,"date":"2015-06-23T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2015-06-23T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T21:48:27","slug":"r-i-p-don-featherstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Don Featherstone &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2002\/10\/29\/photos\/flo-FLAMINGO5.jpg\" alt=\"pink flamingos\" align=\"right\" \/>&#8230; Inventor of the Pink Flamingo lawn ornament.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a pair that stay out year-round, complementing my tropicals in summer and warming my heart during the winter. (They do look chilly. But, hey. They&#8217;re plastic.)<\/p>\n<p>I posted back in 2007 about the <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=177\">move of Pink Flamingo manufacturing from Massachusetts to Upstate New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the state of Pink Flamingo manufacturing today. But I suspect that mine just doubled in value and maybe I should enjoy them less and take better care of them. Not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/06\/23\/416819751\/man-who-created-the-pink-plastic-lawn-flamingo-dies\">Nice tribute at NPR<\/a>. Including story that he had to use National Geographic photo to model his design because there aren&#8217;t many flamingos in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/don-featherstone1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/don-featherstone1.jpg\" alt=\"Don Featherstone\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/don-featherstone1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/don-featherstone1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Inventor of the Pink Flamingo lawn ornament. I&#8217;ve got a pair that stay out year-round, complementing my tropicals in summer and warming my heart during the winter. (They do look chilly. But, hey. They&#8217;re plastic.) I posted back in 2007 about the move of Pink Flamingo manufacturing from Massachusetts to Upstate New York. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=2087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R.I.P. Don Featherstone &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}