{"id":774,"date":"2007-04-08T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T21:01:59","slug":"medieval-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Medieval Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMedieval-Castle-Phil-Wilson%2Fdp%2F1581173652%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1176084432%26sr%3D11-1&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Medieval Castle<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>,<br \/>\nDesigned by Willabel Tong, Illustrated by Phil Wilson<br \/>\n(Piggy Toes Press, 2004), hb.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the typical book I have discussed here. It is not a story but a visual. You open it all the way until the two covers meet revealing a 3D pop-up of a medieval castle. Doors open from one room to the next, as well as closets, treasure hidden under carpets, and even secret passages behind tapestries! It also has a working portcullis and several punch-out figures including knights, ladies and a dragon. This is great fun and a good way to familiarize yourself with medieval castles. This has been a big hit with my boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval Castle, Designed by Willabel Tong, Illustrated by Phil Wilson (Piggy Toes Press, 2004), hb. This is not the typical book I have discussed here. It is not a story but a visual. You open it all the way until the two covers meet revealing a 3D pop-up of a medieval castle. Doors open from &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Medieval Castle&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}