{"id":485,"date":"2020-06-12T04:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/?page_id=485"},"modified":"2020-06-12T04:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T04:50:41","slug":"goomeri-pumpkin-plinth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/goomeri-pumpkin-plinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Goomeri Pumpkin Plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Heather-posing-with-pumpkin-plinth.jpg\" alt=\"Heather May poses on her mosaiced plinth in Goomeri Qld\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Heather-posing-with-pumpkin-plinth.jpg 750w, https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Heather-posing-with-pumpkin-plinth-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amayz Mosaics was delighted to be contacted by the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival Committee and asked to mosaic the plain concrete plinth that supports a 500 kg stone pumpkin carved from a single piece of Indonesian greenstone. The pumpkin statue stands in Market Square and was installed as an icon to the town&#8217;s Pumpkin Festival commemorated each year in May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onto sheets of cement board Heather sketched out a design that would flow around the four sides and across the top of the plinth, then set to mosaicing it all with hand-cut coloured glass. The entire job took some 10 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pumkin-Plinth-1.jpg\" alt=\"Goomeri Pumpkin plinth by Amayz Mosaics Sunshine Coast\" class=\"wp-image-467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pumkin-Plinth-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pumkin-Plinth-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amayz Mosaics was delighted to be contacted by the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival Committee and asked to mosaic the plain concrete plinth that supports a 500 kg stone pumpkin carved from a single piece of Indonesian greenstone. The pumpkin statue stands in Market Square and was installed as an icon to the town&#8217;s Pumpkin Festival commemorated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/goomeri-pumpkin-plinth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goomeri Pumpkin Plinth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amayzmosaics.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}