{"id":1877,"date":"2015-07-10T22:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:30:08","slug":"nordheim-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Nordheim Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An entry into the Colossal Castle Contest on classic-castle.com. Snowy Castle dioramas have long been my favorite subject matter, so this was an extraordinarily fun build. This is my largest irregular base build to date, and features a full interior throughout the whole keep. 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Snowy Castle dioramas have long been my favorite subject matter, so this was an extraordinarily fun build. This is my largest\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=1877\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,659,2141],"tags":[308,135,62,207,476,169,482,102,474,53,220,105,479,480,123,126,8,125,120,49,412,475,477,13,15,481,58,318,243,273,478,63,12,212,242],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castle","category-isaac","category-public-choice-creations","tag-angled","tag-bush","tag-castle","tag-chimney","tag-citadel","tag-cliff","tag-cold","tag-creation","tag-custom","tag-design","tag-door","tag-fortress","tag-foundation","tag-gates","tag-ice","tag-keep","tag-lego","tag-mitgardia","tag-mitgardian","tag-moc","tag-model","tag-nordheim","tag-palisade","tag-rockwork","tag-roof","tag-smoke","tag-snow","tag-snowy","tag-stone","tag-technique","tag-tilted","tag-tower","tag-tree","tag-winter","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","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=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}