{"id":57,"date":"2011-11-23T01:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2011-11-28T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T08:02:11","slug":"masquerade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/masquerade\/","title":{"rendered":"Masquerade, page by page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>The thing that interested me about painting <em>Masquerade<\/em> was<br \/>\nhow could you make people look at those paintings\u2026and look\u2026and look\u2026and look again.<br \/>\nThe puzzle&#8211;that was the way to do that.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>&#8211;Kit Williams<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hareillo.GIF\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"205\" \/> Okay, before we get into the nitty-gritty of\u00a0<em>Masquerade<\/em>, know the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On each painting there are several pieces of information: a <strong>border phrase<\/strong> that surrounds the artwork, a word spelled out from <strong>the barbed letters<\/strong> in that phrase, and another word spelled out using only <strong>the red letters<\/strong> in that phrase. Sometimes these had relevance on the book&#8217;s solution, and sometimes not. Also, each painting hides a word or phrase from<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/master-riddle\/\">the master riddle<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as well as a <strong>picture of a hare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The official solution is available in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0894803697\/002-3791494-1014250\">paperback edition of\u00a0<em>Masquerade<\/em><\/a>, but I feel an even better reference work is Bamber Gascoigne&#8217;s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/\" target=\"new\">Quest for the Golden Hare<\/a><\/em>, which includes Barker &amp; Rousseau&#8217;s detailed contest entry in full&#8211;which has become known as &#8220;the perfect solution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I am not including the text of the book and the artwork scans are intentionally small. Consider these images visual reference points only; again, you&#8217;ll need\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0894803697\/002-3791494-1014250\">the book<\/a>\u00a0to see them in detail.<\/li>\n<li>These are not the official names of the paintings&#8211;they&#8217;re just my reference titles. Don&#8217;t take them as law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing that interested me about painting Masquerade was how could you make people look at those paintings\u2026and look\u2026and look\u2026and look again. The puzzle&#8211;that was the way to do that. &#8211;Kit Williams &nbsp; Okay, before we get into the nitty-gritty of\u00a0Masquerade, know the following: On each painting there are several pieces of information: a border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/kitwilliams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}