{"id":1814,"date":"2010-06-21T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:38:18","slug":"the-gnome-be-gone-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gnome-Be-Gone Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago I was at my boyfriend Tyler&#8217;s graduation party and saw two freaky creatures\u00a0peeking out from behind the pool and\u00a0carrying away a gnome.\u00a0 They were attention grabbers to say the least.<\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1938\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1938\" title=\"gnome\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"gnome\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome-515x686.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The clan continued to grow over the years (thanks\u00a0to\u00a0Tyler&#8217;s brother Josh who bought them\u00a0every year for his mother). And in time I learned where those gnome-carriers came from, found them endearing\u00a0and was dying to work for <a href=\"www.uncommongoods.com\/?source=blog_post58\" target=\"_self\">UncommonGoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While at UG, I got to know more about the Utah-based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/artist\/artist.jsp?artistId=10800&amp;source=blog_post58\" target=\"_self\">Fred Conlon<\/a> and saw tons of his new and quirky products come to life.\u00a0 Fred&#8217;s latest addtion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19062&amp;source=blog_post58\" target=\"_self\">Mow-Bot<\/a>, is now gracing the cover of the current catalog. While I love the cute \u00a0metal robot, my heart belongs to those initial <a href=\"http:\/\/find.uncommongoods.com\/?q=gnome-be-gone&amp;Image1.x=0&amp;Image1.y=0&amp;source=blog_post58\" target=\"_self\">little goblins<\/a> that got so many people to become\u00a0repeat customers and lifelong fans of the company that is anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1944\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome3-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1944\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome3-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1944\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome3-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1944\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/the-gnome-be-gone-family\/gnome3-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1944\" title=\"gnome3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome31-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"gnome3\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome31-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome31-515x686.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome31.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1939\" title=\"gnome2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome2-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"gnome2\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome2-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome2-515x686.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gnome2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A backyard that would make Fred Conlon smile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[741],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}