{"id":662,"date":"2009-07-31T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=662"},"modified":"2009-08-07T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T18:18:21","slug":"lunar-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Lunar embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2014\/1269\/1600\/moonrock1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=floatRight width=200 src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2014\/1269\/400\/moonrock1.0.jpg\"><\/a>I&#8217;ve dabbled a little in cross-stitch embroidery, but never tackled anything this spectacular.  <a href=\"http:\/\/beche-la-mer.blogspot.com\/\">beche-la-mer<\/a> was so inspired by a topographical map of the Moon that she decided to embroider it, in full color and texture.  After just one month&#8217;s effort, she achieved her goal.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the process at her blog:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beche-la-mer.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/moon-rock-1.html\">The project begins<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beche-la-mer.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/moon-box.html\">The project complete<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s awesome that she chose the far side of the Moon to immortalize.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2014\/1269\/1600\/moonrock6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=200 src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2014\/1269\/320\/moonrock6.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks for the pointer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimcarson.com\/\">Jim<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>Jim suggests that a Mars follow-on would be another fun project.  I think this image, showing the Tharsis bulge, Olympus Mons, and Valles Marineris, could make a particularly fine work of art:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/mola.gsfc.nasa.gov\/images\/tharsis-valles-s1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 src=\"http:\/\/mola.gsfc.nasa.gov\/images\/tharsis-valles-s1.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n  But oh, all those French knots!  Maybe I&#8217;ll finish the sock I&#8217;m knitting first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve dabbled a little in cross-stitch embroidery, but never tackled anything this spectacular. beche-la-mer was so inspired by a topographical map of the Moon that she decided to embroider it, in full color and texture. After just one month&#8217;s effort, she achieved her goal. You can read more about the process at her blog: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}