{"id":785,"date":"2018-09-06T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=785"},"modified":"2018-09-05T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T22:54:25","slug":"hgc-resplendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"HGC resplendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final leg of this mini epic project to have a dragon wreathed around my lamp is accomplished.\u00a0 Coping with a dragon, however benign, with five visible legs (and one invisible, of course), and a long neck, and a long tail, required two pairs of hands and a lot of patience.\u00a0 My thanks to Rachel for invaluable assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Honourable Giver of Contentment comes in three parts (like ancient Gaul), which did make\u00a0 him easier to assemble.\u00a0 First we decided exactly where his head should be, marking the place with a tiny cross.\u00a0 Next his legs were bent appropriately and strengthened with a bracing strip, while the middle part of his body had legs similarly attached.\u00a0 All four feet were then (PVA) glued in place, four sets of fingers restraining his desire to stray.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.\u00a0 Greater security suggested that his midriff should be glued down, and one whisker strengthened.\u00a0 At the back of the middle section is a great body curl, designed as the principal place of\u00a0 attachment,though\u00a0 before we did that, the tail section, with its strengthened leg,\u00a0 needed to be placed so as to give the impression of following on.\u00a0 The fronds at the tip were determined to curl outwards &#8211; persistence won out.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is, prowling among the eucalyptus (!) leaves, spreading peace and contentment all round.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-788\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/HGCend-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>P.S.,\u00a0 I have a spare dragon&#8217;s tail if anyone wants one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final leg of this mini epic project to have a dragon wreathed around my lamp is accomplished.\u00a0 Coping with a dragon, however benign, with five visible legs (and one invisible, of course), and a long neck, and a long tail, required two pairs of hands and a lot of patience.\u00a0 My thanks to Rachel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HGC resplendent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}