{"id":471,"date":"2011-02-02T01:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=471"},"modified":"2011-02-02T01:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T06:59:54","slug":"thing-a-day-1-tetris-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Thing-a-day 1: Tetris watercolor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I&#8217;m doing Thing-a-day, a Nanowrimo-like month of creating short, discrete projects. This goes well with my constant annoying admonishment that geeks should do things with their hands more.<\/p>\n<p>For my first, a watercolor of a game that has consumed far too much of my life:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinn\/5409337311\/\" title=\"Thing-a-day 1 by quinnums, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4109\/5409337311_81bd6e1eab.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Thing-a-day 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew I wanted to do a painting, but I was struggling for what, until <a href=\"http:\/\/synopticlabs.posterous.com\/thing-a-day-201101-megaman-bead-sprite\">synopticlabs showed me his lovely video game inspired thing a day<\/a>, and I could ruthlessly steal the idea for my own.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">&#8230;and we&#8217;re off!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I&#8217;m doing Thing-a-day, a Nanowrimo-like month of creating short, discrete projects. This goes well with my constant annoying admonishment that geeks should do things with their hands more. For my first, a watercolor of a game that has consumed far too much of my life: I knew I wanted to do a painting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[150,149,148],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","tag-games","tag-painting","tag-thing-a-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}