{"id":257,"date":"2009-04-15T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:16:08","slug":"words-from-dan-lamont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"words from Dan Lamont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Years ago I was with Tom, in Houston,\u00a0 when he created Ripper &#8211; The first parade we did &#8211; I believe\u00a0 &#8211; was the Pasadena rodeo &#8211; I was on roller skates with a mask and snorkel. Then the Heights festival had a parade and Ripper went there. Then on to the Art Car parade &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember if it was the first or second year when the Fish Cycles were brought into the parade, but I do remember my daughters, Misty and Jessica, had SO MUCH FUN!!!! I rode Fishbait and Tom had tie died a shirt and shorts for me to wear which matched Fishbaits colors &#8211; Then phlourescent yellow and green &#8211; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">inside the bicycle were two beverage holders with tubing to provide liquid refreshment to the rider. There was a pulley and rope system which would cause Fishbait to open and close\u00a0 his mouth\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I knew Tom, then lost touch, but never forgot the great times we shared.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">May God bless you and your family &#8211;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>Dan Lamont<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>PS <span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Forgot to mention &#8211; Tom had a driver one year for Ripper, and wearing a safari hat holding a canoe paddle, lay in Rippers mouth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I remember Ripper swinging from one side of the road to the other and all the parents laughing , while their children were in awe, or screaming\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I was with Tom, in Houston,\u00a0 when he created Ripper &#8211; The first parade we did &#8211; I believe\u00a0 &#8211; was the Pasadena rodeo &#8211; I was on roller skates with a mask and snorkel. Then the Heights festival had a parade and Ripper went there. Then on to the Art Car parade&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=257\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">words from Dan Lamont<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-sent-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}