{"id":5981,"date":"2016-12-28T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2016-12-28T21:08:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T21:08:22","slug":"balkr-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=5981","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e1lkr Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 9th entry into the CCC XIV, for the &#8216;Ice Castle&#8217; category. Credit for the tree design goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/legols\/30690992004\/in\/dateposted\/\">Legopard<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t really think I was going to do an entry for the castle category this year, but after looking at several wooden castles from various people, I decided to\u00a0give it a try. I&#8217;m quite pleased with how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p><em>The town of \u00a0Balkr in Mitgardia is protected by a wooden wall with towers. 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src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Overview-6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Low-4.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[5981]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Low-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/High-2.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[5981]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/High-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" 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I didn&#8217;t really think I was going to do an\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=5981\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,660],"tags":[749,60,286,135,62,413,1541,445,1588,102,53,220,132,721,768,105,154,1331,1545,1033,16,353,8,1199,125,49,412,175,1342,1587,149,70,1238,1589,58,1590,402,57,1297,1586,510,273,63,12,1041,52,210,59,450,212,242,202,1540],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castle","category-john","tag-brickbuilt","tag-bridge","tag-build","tag-bush","tag-castle","tag-ccc","tag-colossal-castle-contest","tag-cook","tag-cooking","tag-creation","tag-design","tag-door","tag-fire","tag-flag","tag-fort","tag-fortress","tag-gate","tag-glorfindel","tag-guilds-of-historica","tag-husky","tag-interior","tag-ladder","tag-lego","tag-method","tag-mitgardia","tag-moc","tag-model","tag-norse","tag-pallisade","tag-pot","tag-roofs","tag-rope","tag-scene","tag-snoscape","tag-snow","tag-snowball","tag-stairs","tag-stonework","tag-storehouse","tag-stores","tag-stove","tag-technique","tag-tower","tag-tree","tag-viking","tag-wall","tag-watchtower","tag-water","tag-windows","tag-winter","tag-wood","tag-wooden","tag-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}