{"id":171,"date":"2009-02-13T00:40:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T05:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-02-13T00:40:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T05:40:26","slug":"happy-valentines-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/happy-valentines-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came up with a new origami model, which I\u2019m calling the Love Bug.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whimsical insect, a variations on my butterfly where the wings form the shape of a heart.\u00a0\u00a0 It was inspired in part by playing cards with Lizzy the other night.\u00a0 The deck was the kind where every card has a picture, and the ace of hearts had a similar sort of moth or something.\u00a0 The other inspiration was my ongoing quest to make a satisfying origami ladybug.\u00a0 I had once made an attempt based on my butterfly and figured out a way to do the color change for the wings and again for the spots.\u00a0 Unfortunately the basic body plan was too different for it to work, and the legs ended up in the wrong place and the wings were the wrong shape.\u00a0 But I found I was able to use that approach for this one, and here you go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/lovebug\/lovebug01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/lovebug\/lovebug01_400.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/lovebug\/lovebug05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/origami\/oriPics\/lovebug\/lovebug05_400.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came up with a new origami model, which I\u2019m calling the Love Bug.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whimsical insect, a variations on my butterfly where the wings form the shape of a heart.\u00a0\u00a0 It was inspired in part by playing cards with Lizzy the other night.\u00a0 The deck was the kind where every card has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/happy-valentines-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Valentines Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}