{"id":4744,"date":"2024-12-21T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2024-12-28T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T20:12:11","slug":"iliad-odyssey-neil-packer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2024\/12\/21\/iliad-odyssey-neil-packer\/","title":{"rendered":"Iliad &amp; Odyssey, Neil Packer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoyed this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkpuzzlecompany.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkpuzzlecompany.com\">New York Puzzle Co.<\/a> 1000-piece puzzle, art by Neil Packer, &#8220;The Iliad and the Odyssey&#8221;, from the Candlewick Press editions. (It&#8217;s not available via the NYPC website, but here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlewarehouse.com\/iliad-odyssey-1000-pieces-by-new-york-puzzle-co\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlewarehouse.com\/iliad-odyssey-1000-pieces-by-new-york-puzzle-co\/\">link to Puzzle Warehouse<\/a>, where, theoretically, it might come back in stock.) I loved the art when I saw it, and picked it up a while back, but only just now got around to solving (working through my backlog). Anyway, it was excellent, and it worked really well as a puzzle &#8212; a good mix of solids with intruding elements, and different patterns. And the NY Puzzle co. cut style (strip-style but with some random cutting) worked well with the art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_010235844-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" data-id=\"4751\" src=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_010235844-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_010235844-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_010235844-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241221_010235844-150x113.jpg 150w, 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(It&#8217;s not available via the NYPC website, but here&#8217;s a link to Puzzle Warehouse, where, theoretically, it might come back in stock.) I loved the art when I saw it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,11],"tags":[],"artists":[641],"puzzling":[528,371],"makers":[642],"features":[147,508],"subjects":[274,518],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardboard","category-completed","artists-neil-packer","puzzling-528","puzzling-lq","makers-new-york-puzzle-co","features-1000-pieces","features-cardboard","subjects-literary-illustrations","subjects-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241222_004654443-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}