{"id":552,"date":"2018-03-09T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T06:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/?p=552"},"modified":"2018-03-13T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T20:04:36","slug":"geek-makes-greek-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/2018\/03\/geek-makes-greek-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek makes Greek in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/post-pic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-562\" src=\"http:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/post-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/post-pic.jpg 279w, https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/post-pic-97x300.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a>Okay, so the headline is only a hair north of pure gibberish. The nuts and bolts of this post, however, are simple and clear: a sorority chapter was in need of a pole with\u00a0its Greek letters for an upcoming event.<\/p>\n<p>A Sigma Gamma Rho alumna asked Seawood&#8217;s HeadShaper if the task was something the sports-craft maker could accomplish. Of course, not only does staff have the know-how to carve such items, it would mean an opportunity to use some stored-away thick-slab wood that has been itching to become something special.\u00a0 Putting it to this project would be both fun and efficient at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>So, templates were made. A pine pole, hardware, paints and lacquer were purchased. Drawing, sawing, sanding, spraying and mounting soon followed.<\/p>\n<p>A photo record was made to fill the pages of a college scrapbook(?). Click through the image gallery above to see some points in the process. The completed, 6-foot-tall project is at right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the headline is only a hair north of pure gibberish. The nuts and bolts of this post, however, are simple and clear: a sorority chapter was in need of a pole with\u00a0its Greek letters for an upcoming event. A Sigma Gamma Rho alumna asked Seawood&#8217;s HeadShaper if the task was something the sports-craft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seawoodusa.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}