{"id":71,"date":"2011-12-19T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/12\/19\/my-5yo-and-i-finally-built-a-lego-microscale-millennium-falcon\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:05:00","slug":"my-5yo-and-i-finally-built-a-lego-microscale-millennium-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/12\/my-5yo-and-i-finally-built-a-lego-microscale-millennium-falcon\/","title":{"rendered":"My 5yo and I finally built a LEGO microscale Millennium Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the instructions I posted a few weeks back (<a title=\"Snip, Burn, Solder Blog: Make a LEGO Millennium Falcon Ornament\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2011\/12\/make_a_lego_millennium_falcon_1.html\">Snip, Burn, Solder Blog: Make a LEGO Millennium Falcon Ornament<\/a>) and the idiosyncratic m&eacute;lange of decades-old hand-me-down LEGO we have on hand, my 5-year-old and I built this wicked-awesome Millennium Falcon (or, as he calls it, &#8220;the Peregrine Falcon,&#8221; because his grounding in the natural sciences sadly exceeds his grounding in American popular mythology.  This is my fault, and I bear the full burden of our familial shame).<br \/>\nPictured here in flight with guns blazing (the boy loves lasers):<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~nelsonde\/Pics\/falcon1.JPG\"><br \/>\nAnd here in dry-dock with microfig Han and Chewie conferring about what the crap is wrong with the damn hyperdrive:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~nelsonde\/Pics\/falcon2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the instructions I posted a few weeks back (Snip, Burn, Solder Blog: Make a LEGO Millennium Falcon Ornament) and the idiosyncratic m&eacute;lange of decades-old hand-me-down LEGO we have on hand, my 5-year-old and I built this wicked-awesome Millennium Falcon (or, as he calls it, &#8220;the Peregrine Falcon,&#8221; because his grounding in the natural sciences &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/12\/my-5yo-and-i-finally-built-a-lego-microscale-millennium-falcon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My 5yo and I finally built a LEGO microscale Millennium Falcon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}