{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "He has painted a baseball every day for 38 years to create the world\u2019s - largest ball of paint. \n \u201cMy intention was to paint...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/147134768953/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http://ultrafacts.tumblr.com/post/123592193969\" target=\"_blank\">ultrafacts</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He has painted a baseball every day for 38 years to create the world\u2019s - largest ball of paint.<br/></p>\n<p>\u201cMy intention was to paint maybe a thousand coats on it and then maybe cut it in half and see what it looked like,\u201d Mike says in his soft spoken way, noting that each coat on his ball is a different color from the one before.</p>\n<p>\u201cBut then it got to the size where it looked kinda neat, and all my family said keep on painting it. And I\u2019ve continued on for all these years.\u201d</p>\n<p>\n\nHow it all began: The first coat of paint is applied to Michael Carmichael\u2019s baseball by his son Mike Jr in 1977<br/></p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"476\" data-orig-width=\"634\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_nr6nbmqFwK1rxwfvw_540_5a414cad3e9d.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"476\" data-orig-width=\"634\"/></figure><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"460\" data-orig-width=\"634\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_nr6nfxfNa21rxwfvw_540_5c2a58a8d888.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"460\" data-orig-width=\"634\"/></figure><p>\n\nGetting bigger: The 13,300th coat of paint is applied to ball. Visitors have flocked from around the world to add new coats of paint<br/></p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"448\" data-orig-width=\"634\"><img src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_nr6ngfy7Ri1rxwfvw_540_314ce5ef3b26.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"448\" data-orig-width=\"634\"/></figure><p><a href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2040933/Michael-Carmichael-paints-baseball-day-34-years-worlds-biggest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Source</a><br/></p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http://ultrafacts.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Ultrafacts</b></a> for more facts!</p>\n</blockquote>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nr6nhpXjaL1rhavdko1_500_62d49fb9129f.png\" />\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_nr6nhpXjaL1rhavdko2_640_3c07d99df731.jpg\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_nr6nbmqFwK1rxwfvw_540_5a414cad3e9d.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 540, "thumbnail_height": 405}