{"id":1202,"date":"2009-09-05T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2009-09-05T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T17:53:00","slug":"steampunk-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entries in a steampunk design challenge<\/a>. I rather like “Amazon 1821.” And this one<\/a>. There are multiple pages.<\/p>\n

I suppose it was reading The Witches of Chiswick<\/a>\"\"<\/em> that made me a fan of the genre — Her Majesty’s Electric Fusiliers and all that. (Via Boing Boing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entries in a steampunk design challenge. I rather like “Amazon 1821.” And this one. There are multiple pages. I suppose it was reading The Witches of Chiswick that made me a fan of the genre — Her Majesty’s Electric Fusiliers and all that. (Via Boing Boing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-jo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1215,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1215","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry with Bison","author":"Chas S. 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Then at your next festival, elbow aside all those half-naked dancers, set your cast-iron Dutch oven in the lambent coals, and enjoy a drink while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1316","url_meta":{"origin":1202,"position":4},"title":"Weird Toys","author":"Chas S. 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