I was waiting for Leah to come pick me up at work the other day, and as I stood just inside the door to our building, I found myself contemplating the unlikely perfection of the buttocks on the Herky statue that adorns the promenade outside our plaza entrance.<\/p>\n
I tried to put myself in the sculptor’s shoes. I mean, this isn’t Michelangelo we’re talking about, and the subject sure ain’t no David. I get it that Herky needs to reflect a certain athleticism, being an athletics mascot, and what depicts athleticism better than a well-formed rump? Still, there’s a certain sillyness involved in the public portrayal of a butt. How nice to make it? When does “good enough” turn to “just right” turn to “absurd<\/a>?” Had I been doing the sculpting, I might’ve toned it down a bit (pardon the pun). Most people are viewing the statues from the front<\/a>, anyway, so the butt will always play third fiddle to the golden bird’s barrel chest and bulging biceps. Also, I need to try to keep my mind from wandering….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was waiting for Leah to come pick me up at work the other day, and as I stood just inside the door to our building, I found myself contemplating the unlikely perfection of the buttocks on the Herky statue that adorns the promenade outside our plaza entrance. I tried to put myself in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-bum","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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