{"id":3213,"date":"2016-04-17T20:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2016-04-17T20:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T20:53:39","slug":"the-burning-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/17\/the-burning-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John, a participant on the recent Mires Beck woodcarving course, kindly lent me his pyrography kit to play about with. I must admit I found it quite enjoyable, and I fancy doing a bit more; I set my ambitions low and attempted a simple line drawing of a hare (what else?!) on a spare bit of plywood. A quick Google search told me that oak is not really suitable as the grain is too bumpy ~ a shame as I had a nice piece set aside; the cheap plywood seemed to work pretty well though, and was good enough for a learning curve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"allen-stichler-woodcarving\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-225x400.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175-39x70.jpg 39w, https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/WP_20160416_001-e1460926233175.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was reasonably satisfied with my first attempt ~ the trick is not to look at superior work on the internet! I&#8217;ve ordered a budget kit this week, so I&#8217;ll see if I can learn as I go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, a participant on the recent Mires Beck woodcarving course, kindly lent me his pyrography kit to play about with. I must admit I found it quite enjoyable, and I fancy doing a bit more; I set my ambitions low and attempted a simple line drawing of a hare (what else?!) on a spare bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}