{"id":7209,"date":"2018-07-21T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2018-07-21T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T21:18:44","slug":"an-intriguing-glimpse-at-a-deeply-obscure-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/an-intriguing-glimpse-at-a-deeply-obscure-art\/","title":{"rendered":"An intriguing glimpse at a deeply obscure art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fore-edge_painting\">Fore-edge painting<\/a> renders a scene on the edges of the pages of a book, and\u00a0Martin Frost might be the last remaining professional fore-edge painter in the world. Here\u2019s a peek at his vanishing craft:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E4_2xGZy6Jk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dating back centuries, the delicate art form places intricate scenes on the side of books, cheekily hidden beneath gold gilded pages. The beautiful paintings are only visible to the trained eye, but once you unlock the secret, you\u2019ll find pure magic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NewImage-20.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"294\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E4_2xGZy6Jk\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/18\/07\/the-last-working-fore-edge-painter-in-the-world\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fore-edge painting renders a scene on the edges of the pages of a book, and\u00a0Martin Frost might be the last remaining professional fore-edge painter in the world. Here\u2019s a peek at his vanishing craft: Dating back centuries, the delicate art form places intricate scenes on the side of books, cheekily hidden beneath gold gilded pages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}