{"id":698,"date":"2012-12-10T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T08:29:06","slug":"christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2012\/12\/10\/christmas-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I recently ended up buying my own Christmas present which doesn&#8217;t seem quite right but if you want to be sure you get what your after then it&#8217;s the only way.<br \/>\nThis time it was the original artwork for the cover of the 1982 edition of &#8216;The Chequer Board&#8217; by Nevil Shute painted by George Sharp. We think George painted 22 of the 23 Shute titles apart from &#8216;A Town Like Alice&#8217; which may only of had a TV tie-in cover but if you know better please let me know especially those in Australia.<br \/>\nI have several pieces of original artwork mostly around the 12&#8243; by 15&#8243; size but I&#8217;ll let you guess what size my latest piece is? To find the answer just click on the picture below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/George%20Sharp.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-699\" title=\"The Chequer Board\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NSChequer.jpg\" alt=\"The Chequer Board\" width=\"125\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ended up buying my own Christmas present which doesn&#8217;t seem quite right but if you want to be sure you get what your after then it&#8217;s the only way. This time it was the original artwork for the cover of the 1982 edition of &#8216;The Chequer Board&#8217; by Nevil Shute painted by George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}