{"id":11529,"date":"2018-11-21T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2018-11-21T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:07:43","slug":"ccc-xvi-militia-mishaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=11529","title":{"rendered":"CCC XVI: Militia Mishaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entry number six for the <a href=\"http:\/\/classic-castle.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=27003\">Colossal Castle Contest XVI<\/a>. As the title indicates, this one is for the Medieval Militia category. I&#8217;m quite satisfied with the sloping wall foundation, and how smoothly I got the angled portion to fit. The tower top style was inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/76437548@N04\/35829282970\/in\/dateposted\/\">Steven Erickson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The annual training of militia is always a trying time for Sir Renaud. While he no longer directly oversees the weapons drills it&#8217;s practically painful to watch some of the peasants try and use the blunted practice swords, throw javelins, or even fire a simple bow and arrow! Others are only too confident in their supposed combat skills. 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As the title indicates, this one is for the Medieval Militia category. I&#8217;m quite satisfied with the sloping wall foundation, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=11529\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,659],"tags":[308,1042,743,1836,286,279,62,2660,102,53,1336,936,479,209,2658,14,8,642,2659,125,120,49,412,137,51,15,1360,325,243,1564,1496,273,63,1256,52,1432,136],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castle","category-isaac","tag-angled","tag-arrow","tag-base","tag-bow","tag-build","tag-building","tag-castle","tag-combat","tag-creation","tag-design","tag-dirt","tag-drill","tag-foundation","tag-grass","tag-javelin","tag-landscape","tag-lego","tag-medieval","tag-militia","tag-mitgardia","tag-mitgardian","tag-moc","tag-model","tag-path","tag-plants","tag-roof","tag-sloping","tag-snot","tag-stone","tag-sword","tag-target","tag-technique","tag-tower","tag-training","tag-wall","tag-weapon","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}