{"id":3629,"date":"2010-09-05T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2010-09-05T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T06:11:56","slug":"balsa-man-a-tiny-slice-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/05\/balsa-man-a-tiny-slice-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Balsa Man: A Tiny Slice of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/balsaman.org\">Balsa Man<\/a> Saturday night with Charlotte and Rick. Rick thought it would be funny if we burned the man like 10 minutes early. And&#8230;.. well, images speak louder than words on this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3630\" title=\"Paul Addis Paul Addis and Paul Addis\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3634\" title=\"Paul Addis and Paul Addis\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Paul-Addis-and-Paul-Addis.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>In case you need some words, one claim to fame of Paul Addis is that he attempted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/lifestyle\/news\/2007\/08\/addis\">burn the man<\/a> early in 2007. His mug shot gained quite some \u00a0notoriety. We weren&#8217;t aware that Paul was at Balsa Man until my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sninky-chan\/4960986501\/\">Dan<\/a> pointed it out. Thanks for the pix Dan! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sninky-chan\/4961585176\/in\/photostream\/\">via<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sninky-chan\/4960986501\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/paul_addis_630px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3631\" title=\"paul_addis_630px\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/paul_addis_630px-200x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/paul_addis_630px-200x79.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/paul_addis_630px-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/paul_addis_630px.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Balsa Man was really pretty awesome. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/balsaman2010\/\">other peoples pix about Balsa Man 2010<\/a>. My pix don&#8217;t do it justice but here you go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3633\" title=\"Balsa Man 1\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-1-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3632\" title=\"Balsa Man 2\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-2-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Balsa-Man-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got to mention that I apparently was officially the first injury ever at Balsa Man. \u00a0Some fireworks strayed my way and exploded about 8 feet away. It felt like I got punched in the chin. Some debris flew my way and I can&#8217;t tell if it was a burn or a scrape but it took a little chunk of my chin. It looks like it will heal just fine, but ouch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Balsa Man Saturday night with Charlotte and Rick. Rick thought it would be funny if we burned the man like 10 minutes early. And&#8230;.. well, images speak louder than words on this one&#8230; In case you need some words, one claim to fame of Paul Addis is that he attempted to burn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}