{"id":2072,"date":"2025-09-26T21:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:36:36","slug":"the-man-in-the-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-man-in-the-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man in the Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pulling my curtains closed the other night when I saw what seemed like a man standing in his garage, with his arms folded in front of him. I looked at him for a brief moment, wondering &#8220;why is he just standing there like that?&#8221; I have an A.I. image to the right above, showing what I thought I was seeing in the photograph on the left. Were my eyes playing tricks on me? Or can see why I might have thought it was a man standing there?<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, when I zoomed in on my photo and lightened it on my iPhone, I could see that it wasn&#8217;t a man at all. As you can see below, it&#8217;s just a pile of of boxes. But the small box on top, in relation to the size of the box below, certainly has proportions similar to a head on a torso. And it was the open box flap that &#8211; in the dark &#8211; looked like folded arms in front of a chest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2075\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stacked-boxes-in-a-garage.jpg\" alt=\"stacked boxes in a garage\" width=\"850\" height=\"818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2075\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closer look at the &#8220;man in the garage&#8221; reveals a stack of boxes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pulling my curtains closed the other night when I saw what seemed like a man standing in his garage, with his arms folded in front of him. I looked at him for a brief moment, wondering &#8220;why is he just standing there like that?&#8221; I have an A.I. image to the right above, &#8230; <a title=\"The Man in the Garage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-man-in-the-garage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Man in the Garage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48],"tags":[549,554,566],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","category-street-photography","tag-not-what-you-think","tag-observations","tag-optical-illusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3090,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/3090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}