{"id":64505,"date":"2014-01-16T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=64505"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:58:08","slug":"father-spends-six-nights-in-30c-weather-to-build-his-own-rainbow-ice-fort-from-hundreds-of-frozen-plastic-shoeboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=64505","title":{"rendered":"Father spends six nights in -30C weather to build his own rainbow ICE FORT from hundreds of frozen plastic shoeboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ontario-ICE-FORT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64504\" alt=\"\u0585\u0576\u057f\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0585\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ontario-ICE-FORT.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ontario-ICE-FORT.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ontario-ICE-FORT-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ontario-ICE-FORT-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As temperatures dropped to -30 degree Celsius, residents of Ontario could be forgiven for rejecting the great outdoors in favour of keeping warm inside.<\/p>\n<p>But one father refused to be deterred by the bitter temperatures and found an ingenious way to pass the long winter hours of sub-zero temperatures by creating a colorful ice fort in his backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Marchand filled hundreds of eight-litre plastic shoeboxes with water and food colouring &#8211; he filled about 30 each day.<\/p>\n<p>He stored them in his driveway for a month until he had created enough to create his vision.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Marchand then set about building the boundary of a 25\u2032 x 25\u2032 fort &#8211; it took him six nights working in -30 degree Celsius temperatures to erect the wall.<\/p>\n<p>When the work was complete he invited over his friends and family to enjoy a night in his creation, as he sat back and admired his vision as king of his castle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As temperatures dropped to -30 degree Celsius, residents of Ontario could be forgiven for rejecting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[5817],"class_list":["post-64505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-ontario","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}