{"id":225,"date":"2007-05-12T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/henry-viii-in-the-eye-of-a-needle\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:42:00","slug":"henry-viii-in-the-eye-of-a-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/henry-viii-in-the-eye-of-a-needle\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry VIII in the eye of a needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/henryneedle.jpg\" \/><br \/>Willard Wigan, an artist who works on the microscopic scale has sold his collection to John Lloyd. Included in the collection is a sculpture of Henry VIII and Wives done in the eye of  needle (detail of Henry and two wives above). You can see the full version of the Henry VIII piece and read about other works in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23395965-details\/Microscopic+sculptures+valued+at+%C2%A311m+sold+to+David+Lloyd\/article.do\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This is London<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/visual_arts\/article1780024.ece\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Times Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willard Wigan, an artist who works on the microscopic scale has sold his collection to John Lloyd. Included in the collection is a sculpture of Henry VIII and Wives done in the eye of needle (detail of Henry and two wives above). You can see the full version of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/henry-viii-in-the-eye-of-a-needle\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}