{"id":5832,"date":"2017-12-18T06:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T06:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2017-12-18T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T06:25:32","slug":"a-couple-of-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/12\/18\/a-couple-of-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple of Celebrations."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Missed it again, this websites birthday on the 16th so belated greetings for its coming of age – 18 years and still going strong.
\nHere’s to many more blogs and postings and hopefully comments from anyone reading them.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

With Christmas coming up I thought I’d share a piece of seasonal artwork by PAN cover stalwart Glenn Steward I bought off eBay for peanuts, I think it cost me more in postage than I paid for the artwork itself. He painted it as an idea for his personal card for 1995. \"\"<\/a>I like Glenn’s work and have a few examples including the perennial favourite ‘The PAN Book of Card Games’<\/span><\/a> used for thirty years over several editions. I also have the front and back covers of ‘That Magnificent Air Race’<\/span><\/a> and the ‘Hanging Hitchcock’<\/span><\/a> which my wife hates (I really must update a couple of those pages)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Although not that much is know about Steward he was a very keen cyclist and was art editor for ‘The Sporting Cyclist’ with a seasonal issue like this which doesn’t seem to contain any of his artwork so here are a couple of cyclist he painted for a greetings card.\"\"
\n<\/a><\/span>… and finally I went out for a Christmas lunch for members of ‘The Friends of Pelsall Commons’ as my wife and I are ‘Wardens of the Little Commons’ which means we do grand things like litter picks. It was at lunchtime and half a bottle of wine was beginning to take its toll but at least I’m wearing my PAN top as they said wear something red and that was all I could find – honestly!<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missed it again, this websites birthday on the 16th so belated greetings for its coming of age – 18 years and still going strong. Here’s to many more blogs and postings and hopefully comments from anyone reading them. With Christmas coming up I thought I’d share a piece of seasonal artwork by PAN cover stalwart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}