{"id":6791,"date":"2010-05-11T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2010-05-10T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T12:36:29","slug":"mads-hobbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6791","title":{"rendered":"Mad&#8217;s Hobbit Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hobbithole-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Hobbit Hole\" title=\"Hobbit Hole\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I am a sucker for well-done miniatures, and this is just mind-blowingly wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Maddie Chambers had a college course module called &#8220;The Importance of Play,&#8221; and students had to make a toy to hand in at the end of term.  She initially decided to build a little hill with a door similar to Bag End, and then was consumed with the spirit of <em>If a Thing is Worth Doing it is Worth Overdoing<\/em>, and did just that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then I thought, well what if I made the roof removable and had a little room inside? then of course I started drawing up plans and added more rooms and then decided \u2018what the hell?\u2019 I might as well make a replica of the one from the movie and make it big enough to fit in dolls house type furniture!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The house has a bajillion little details, from handmade cabbages in the garden to Thror&#8217;s map framed on a desk.  You can see loads of photos at the <a href=\"http:\/\/madshobbithole.wordpress.com\/\">site<\/a> she has dedicated to the project, and you can also check out her <a href=\"http:\/\/maddsrocks.wordpress.com\/\">main blog<\/a>, where she&#8217;s started detailing work on her next project: A model of the Prancing Pony.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a sucker for well-done miniatures, and this is just mind-blowingly wonderful. Maddie Chambers had a college course module called &#8220;The Importance of Play,&#8221; and students had to make a toy to hand in at the end of term. She initially decided to build a little hill with a door similar to Bag End, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}