{"id":16182,"date":"2017-02-07T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2017-02-07T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:14:56","slug":"minnie-pearl-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/02\/07\/minnie-pearl-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"This Minnie Pearl Sculpture is Made With Chicken Wire!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E!! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is Minnie Pearl, Grand Ole Opry&#8217;s funny lady\u00a0for over 50 years!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Born in 1912,\u00a0Sarah Ophelia Colley (her given name) first performed on stage as &#8220;Minnie Pearl&#8221; in 1939. \u00a0And the rest is history!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"784\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16187\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl.jpg\" alt=\"Minnie-Pearl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-522x640.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Her famous straw hat (complete with the dangling $1.98 price tag) is <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/search\/object\/nmah_740676\">part of the collections<\/a>\u00a0at the National Museum of American History.<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minnie_Pearl#\/media\/File:Minie_pearl_hat.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"591\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16189\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minie_pearl_hat.jpg\" alt=\"Minie_pearl_hat\" \/><\/a>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>image via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Minie_pearl_hat.JPG\">RadioFan<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, a larger-than-life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/minnie-pearl-chicken-wire-statue\">sculpture made of CHICKEN WIRE<\/a> has been made in her likeness! It sits outside of the Courthouse in her hometown of Centerville, Tennessee! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16186\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-Magicguy.jpg\" alt=\"Minnie-Pearl-Magicguy\" \/>\n<p><strong>Centerville-based sculptor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/458537539\/statue-of-grand-ole-opry-star-minnie-pearl\">Ricky\u00a0Pittman<\/a> (shown below working on the piece) made this\u00a08-foot statue of Pearl in 2016 as way to honor the country legend.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16184\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-chicken-wire-Ricky-Pittman.jpg\" alt=\"Minnie-Pearl-chicken-wire-Ricky-Pittman\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-chicken-wire-Ricky-Pittman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-chicken-wire-Ricky-Pittman-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>In the early 1990s, I got to meet\u00a0her!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16188\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minnie-Pearl-and-Pee-wee-Herman.jpg\" alt=\"Minnie-Pearl-and-Pee-wee-Herman\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E!! \u00a0 This is Minnie Pearl, Grand Ole Opry&#8217;s funny lady\u00a0for over 50 years!\u00a0 Born in 1912,\u00a0Sarah Ophelia Colley (her given name) first performed on stage as &#8220;Minnie Pearl&#8221; in 1939. \u00a0And the rest is history!!\u00a0 Her famous straw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16194,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions\/16194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}