{"id":8653,"date":"2020-08-24T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:01:38","slug":"to-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2020\/08\/24\/to-the-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"To the castle!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always used to joke that half the reason I wanted to have kids was so that I could go to the Lego store without feeling like quite such an old weirdo. &#x1f60c; Happily, the boys provided many years of Legonic enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the pandemic Hen has really applied himself to the task of &#8220;restoring your childhood,&#8221; as he puts it. In addition to reconstructing some of my old train &amp; boat sets, he&#8217;s lately turned to one of my all-time favorite sets, the King&#8217;s Castle from circa 1984. I have such strong, fond memories of asking for it at Christmas, thinking (based on box size as the pile of presents was dwindling) that I hadn&#8217;t gotten it, and then <em>GOING OUT OF MY MIND<\/em> upon realizing that it was to be mine after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/nTsLW9CSnyxdnDHY9\">Check out this set of photos<\/a> that Henry captured on his own, especially to show off to our cousin Tony (for whom he also narrated a private tour).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/nTsLW9CSnyxdnDHY9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-castle-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/nTsLW9CSnyxdnDHY9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-king-989x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-king-989x1024.jpg 989w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-king-290x300.jpg 290w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-king-768x795.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/L-king.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>In recent days, Hen &amp; our neighbor Nathan have also discovered a shared love of Legos &amp; making stop-motion films. Check out how they put the new-old castle &amp; knights to use this weekend: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lego Castle Siege!\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qg_TkjQgTeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always used to joke that half the reason I wanted to have kids was so that I could go to the Lego store without feeling like quite such an old weirdo. &#x1f60c; Happily, the boys provided many years of Legonic enjoyment. During the pandemic Hen has really applied himself to the task of &#8220;restoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}