{"id":72854,"date":"2014-03-06T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=72854"},"modified":"2014-03-06T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T04:01:56","slug":"lets-hope-it-doesnt-melt-overnight-farmer-spends-two-months-building-50-foot-snowman-complete-with-trees-for-arms-and-a-trash-barrel-for-a-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=72854","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s hope it doesn&#8217;t melt overnight! Farmer spends two months building 50-foot snowman complete with TREES for arms and a trash barrel for a nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/50-foot-snowman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72852\" alt=\"15\u0574 \u0562\u0561\u0580\u0571\u0580\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0561\u0574\u0562 \u0571\u0576\u0565\u0574\u0561\u0580\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/50-foot-snowman1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/50-foot-snowman1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/50-foot-snowman1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/50-foot-snowman1-460x300.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Minnesota farmer turned the snow that was ruining his greenhouses this winter into a spectacular 50-foot snowman that is now attracting national media attention and visitors from miles around.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Novak knew he had to clean up the nuisance snow, but he also thought it would be a great way to perk up his Gilman community deep in the winter doldrums.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of hours and about five weeks later, people began flocking to Novak&#8217;s farm as news of his impressive creation filled up newsfeeds, inboxes and social media across the web.<\/p>\n<p>Friends and family pitched in to help with Granddaddy, or to do farm chores while Novak worked on building the snowman using a skid loaders to pile snow and a silage blower to direct snow into stacked cylinders, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2014303040030&amp;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Cloud Times <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Minnesota farmer turned the snow that was ruining his greenhouses this winter into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[7886],"class_list":["post-72854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-minnesota","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854","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=72854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}