{"id":5574,"date":"2019-07-31T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2019-07-31T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:28:14","slug":"gnome-on-a-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/gnome-on-a-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnome on a Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was another job right up my street ~ a fantasy \/ faerieland element, nice timber to work with, and very enthusiastic and excited clients!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An old double-stemmed ash tree had been taken down and had been transformed into a nicely-shaped throne; my job was to carve a friendly gnome on the back rest, with a snail and a hare on the sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shape of the back rest was made for a gnome with a big pointy hat, and after a few different sketches a design was agreed on and off we went:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A butterfly hovering above, giving the gnome something to look at
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    The ledge underneath was a later addition, to cover up a couple of light chainsaw marks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This was another job right up my street ~ a fantasy \/ faerieland element, nice timber to work with, and very enthusiastic and excited clients! An old double-stemmed ash tree had been taken down and had been transformed into a nicely-shaped throne; my job was to carve a friendly gnome on the back rest, with […]<\/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-5574","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\/5574","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=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}