{"id":23169,"date":"2023-10-01T09:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23169"},"modified":"2023-11-01T04:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:01:33","slug":"proverbs-and-idioms-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23169","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs and Idioms Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23171\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23171\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154-350x256.jpg\" alt=\"Proverbs and Idioms Puzzle\" width=\"350\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154-350x256.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154-1536x1122.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/img_20231001_013154.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proverbs and Idioms Puzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We finished another puzzle in the last few days. This one is another with illustrations of proverbs and idioms and at 1505 pieces, it took us a while. Although areas of bright color are sometimes the easiest to work on, there are times when I get concentrated on things like the sky and for this puzzle, once we had a lot of the easier bits done, I tackled the sky, working primarily with shapes and fine gradations of color. It&#8217;s challenging and part of what makes puzzles interesting. The other &#x2018;rule&#x2019; we have is we don&#8217;t look at the box. That&#8217;s cheating, in our book, and it also serves to make the puzzle more interesting, especially with something like this where you have no idea of the overall design ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>This puzzle is, as you might notice, missing one piece. We actually found that piece after we took it apart to pit it back in its box, so that&#8217;s fine. More curious than that, though, is that there was an extra piece that clearly isn&#8217;t from this puzzle at all. We&#8217;ve no idea where that came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished another puzzle in the last few days. This one is another with illustrations of proverbs and idioms and at 1505 pieces, it took us a while. Although areas of bright color are sometimes the easiest to work on, there are times when I get concentrated on things like the sky and for this &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2227,3330,3329,2202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23175,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions\/23175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}