{"id":101,"date":"2011-10-27T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-10-27T00:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T07:12:03","slug":"a-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/a-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toast…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to the second year of the blog – which is finally underway, hey, it was a big deadline! – and to doors which, well you know how it goes; one closes and another one opens.<\/p>\n

Or, should you prefer, there’s this toast…<\/p>\n

\"Orcish<\/p>\n

Orcish Settlers (from 1997’s Weatherlight<\/em>) was one of those brain-fart ideas for a picture. <\/p>\n

Back in ’96 I was leading the team in charge of card-naming and flavortext and I was solely responsible for all the cards’ art descriptions. When this card lost its working title and became ‘Orcish Settlers’ this image jumped fully realized into my brain and I asked if I could be assigned the piece.<\/p>\n

Obviously, it’s the goblinoid version of American Gothic by Grant Wood<\/a>. The orcs’ clothing mirror the original’s and were significantly pushing the envelope on how anachronistic the piece could be within the world of Magic the Gathering. The house was a bigger problem as it would tear that same envelope into confetti.<\/p>\n

So, I burnt the house down. And it gave a nice fiery background for a red mana card which was an added bonus. And the card’s power ended up destroying lands, so double bonus!<\/p>\n

That just left me with explaining why the house was ablaze. One burnt piece of toast and a guilty look later and I had my punchline.<\/p>\n

Still amazed I got away with it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… to the second year of the blog – which is finally underway, hey, it was a big deadline! – and to doors which, well you know how it goes; one closes and another one opens. Or, should you prefer, there’s this toast… Orcish Settlers (from 1997’s Weatherlight) was one of those brain-fart ideas for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,55,116,75,20,74],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-vault","tag-73","tag-fire","tag-from-the-vault","tag-goblins","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-weatherlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteventers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}