{"id":311,"date":"2008-10-15T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-10-15T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T19:14:51","slug":"if-only-chess-pieces-looked-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"If only chess pieces looked like this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.klopp.ru\/uploads\/posts\/2007-10\/1192321509_9e9545ad36460be3c38e883e2b1d1fa3_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently I found a\u00c2\u00a0Web page with some marvelous pictures of whimsical chess pieces brought to life as fantasy characters. They reminded me\u00c2\u00a0of Carina J\u00c3\u00b8rgensen&#8217;s work, which I wrote about in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=21\">this entry from October 2007<\/a>. The person who posted the pictures captioned them (in Russian), &#8220;If only chess pieces looked like this&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not exactly sure who the artist is; it may\u00c2\u00a0be the poster, &#8220;Aspirit,&#8221; but it&#8217;s hard to tell. Anyway, if you&#8217;d like to take a look at more chess pieces from fantasyland, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/klopp.ru\/index.php?newsid=40582\">http:\/\/klopp.ru\/index.php?newsid=40582<\/a>. (Don&#8217;t be intimidated by all the Russian language on the page!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one more picture just for fun:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.klopp.ru\/uploads\/posts\/2007-10\/1192321647_6c437a0d8f0b17adeebc24fabee94eda_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder which piece this is? He looks too short to be a king, and he looks more like a knave than a knight. So my guess is that he is a rook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I found a\u00c2\u00a0Web page with some marvelous pictures of whimsical chess pieces brought to life as fantasy characters. They reminded me\u00c2\u00a0of Carina J\u00c3\u00b8rgensen&#8217;s work, which I wrote about in this entry from October 2007. The person who posted the pictures captioned them (in Russian), &#8220;If only chess pieces looked like this&#8230;&#8221; I&#8217;m not exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,235,25],"tags":[601,596,602,595,600,599,597,598,594],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-off-topic","category-people","tag-art","tag-aspirit","tag-fun","tag-klopp","tag-knave","tag-knight","tag-queen","tag-rook","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}