{"id":7731,"date":"2011-01-03T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T11:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:58:52","slug":"dragon-scale-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDragon Scale\u201d Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dragonbook.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Book\" title=\"Dragon Book\" width=\"124\" height=\"145\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I&#8217;m a huge fan of unusual book covers, whether they&#8217;re sprucing up a functional book or simply serving as a prop.  Bascombe Mania has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/bascombemania.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/dragon-book.html\">tutorial<\/a> for making a book covered in &#8220;dragon hide,&#8221; which looks great and is both fairly inexpensive and fairly easy (two things I usually look for in a project).<\/p>\n<p>This particular cover probably wouldn&#8217;t stand up to extensive handling, so it wouldn&#8217;t be appropriate for something like a journal.  However, it would work great as the cover for a wedding guest book or other lightly-handled item.  It would also look wonderful simply displayed on a shelf, perhaps with other faux books or various curiosities.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/lostinschlock.blogspot.com\/\">Lost in Schlock<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of unusual book covers, whether they&#8217;re sprucing up a functional book or simply serving as a prop. Bascombe Mania has a great tutorial for making a book covered in &#8220;dragon hide,&#8221; which looks great and is both fairly inexpensive and fairly easy (two things I usually look for in a project). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}