{"id":2671,"date":"2017-10-26T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:33:46","slug":"making-floating-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2017\/10\/making-floating-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Floating Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first scenes in the Ghostbusters movie depicts a library haunted by a spirit, complete with flying card catalog cards and <strong>floating books<\/strong>.\u00a0 We wanted to include that in this year&#8217;s house, and some friends helped to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>We started off with some books that were rescued before being thrown away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01.jpg\"  alt=\"2017 Books 01\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_01-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, Michelle, Brian and Meredith, cut out the inner part of the pages of the books to make\u00a0them\u00a0light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02.jpg\"  alt=\"2017 Books 02\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_02-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, Brian glued the edges of all the pages, as well as the covers, together and attached &#8216;invisible&#8217; (very thin and clear) thread at the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03.jpg\"  alt=\"2017 Books 03\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_03-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When hung by the thread, the books appear to float!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04.jpg\"  alt=\"2017 Books 04\" width=\"1109\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_08_Books_04-135x80.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/a>The books will be up on the porch (inside the Ghostbusters&#8217; firehouse headquarters) on Halloween.\u00a0 Come by and check them out! Thanks to everyone who helped bring this to life!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first scenes in the Ghostbusters movie depicts a library haunted by a spirit, complete with flying card catalog cards and floating books.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[240,21,20,71,68,192,23,225,31,52,30],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2017-house","tag-books","tag-build","tag-community-build-day","tag-community-painting-day","tag-diy","tag-floating","tag-friends","tag-ghostbusters","tag-halloween","tag-house","tag-how-to-make"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}