{"id":1095,"date":"2011-02-03T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2011-02-03T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:16:16","slug":"counting-down-till-monday-the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/03\/counting-down-till-monday-the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting down till Monday &#8211; The Lair of the Clockwork Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/thrilling_tales_bonnie_scarlet.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"409\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:8px;margin-bottom:8px;\" alt=\"Coming Monday! The Lair of the Clockwork Book\">I&#8217;m still counting down to Clockwork Book Day (Monday!), but &quot;counting down&quot;, in this case, doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m sitting around and, you know, counting. Which makes me wonder why I&#8217;m calling it &quot;counting down&quot;. But I choose to ignore that, and just press on*.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve kept tinkering with the revisions to the <em>Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em> web site &#8211; from content-sensitive banners to new site banners to a new home page  that I almost, but not quite, like a lot; but the rest of my time&#8217;s been spent on redoing four of the <em>Clockwork Book<\/em> illustrations at a much higher resolution for use as <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/cgi-bin\/retropolis_image_replace2.cgi\/retro_future_posters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posters<\/a> and archival prints; that&#8217;s led, along the way, to new <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_pf\/retro-future\/Thrilling-Tales-T-Shirts-Page-1\/_s_350428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T-Shirts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_z\/retropolis_travel_coffee_mugs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coffee mugs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.webomator.com\/retropolis\/retropolis_z\/retropolis_travel_ipad_cases_iphone_cases.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iPad<\/a> cases because once I get rolling it&#8217;s pretty hard for me to stop. Even though I see that I&#8217;m doing merchandising for something that won&#8217;t be published till next week. Hey, whatever. Timey-wimey.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really happy with the way the poster designs have shaped up. And as for the story itself, well, Monday&#8217;s coming. It&#8217;s nearly here.<\/p>\n<p>*<em> As the years go by, I find myself doing that more and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tags]thrilling tales of the downright unusual, the lair of the clockwork book, retro future, illustration, illustrated, stories, fiction[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still counting down to Clockwork Book Day (Monday!), but &quot;counting down&quot;, in this case, doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m sitting around and, you know, counting. Which makes me wonder why I&#8217;m calling it &quot;counting down&quot;. But I choose to ignore that, and just press on*. I&#8217;ve kept tinkering with the revisions to the Thrilling Tales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}