{"id":1992,"date":"2010-02-18T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2010-02-18T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:45:00","slug":"sketchbook-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1992","title":{"rendered":"Sketchbook 2\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more noodling on <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em>&#8211;this time, The Count himself.\u00a0 The main thing I&#8217;m going for here is to (unlike any film or TV version I&#8217;ve seen) really play up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtillustration.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orientalist nature of the book<\/a>, and The Count in particular. I don&#8217;t know that these two images do that entirely, but it&#8217;s a start&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sketchbook_021810\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sketchbook_021810.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1993 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/sketchbook_021810.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"sketchbook_021810\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more noodling on The Count of Monte Cristo&#8211;this time, The Count himself.\u00a0 The main thing I&#8217;m going for here is to (unlike any film or TV version I&#8217;ve seen) really play up the Orientalist nature of the book, and The Count in particular. I don&#8217;t know that these two images do that entirely, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1992\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,12],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-w8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}