{"id":280,"date":"2007-11-18T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/a-man-after-my-own-heart\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T18:05:00","slug":"a-man-after-my-own-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/a-man-after-my-own-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A man after my own heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way cool!<\/p>\n<p>From This Is London:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[F]or 68-year-old Walter, who has spent the last four years painstakingly hand-crafting mullioned windows, stained glass, medieval-style carvings, you name it &#8211; it&#8217;s the realisation of a lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Walter&#8217;s pride and joy is the only faithful recreation of a Tudor home in Britain, right down to his piece de resistance &#8211; the Oriel window, or two-storey bay window that pokes out into the road at the front and necessitated quite a lot of smoothing of ruffled neighbours&#8217; feathers.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there are no stairs, no proper floors, no loo &#8211; there will be modern plumbing &#8211; but there are mountains of wood and notebooks full of his immaculate drawings everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23421612-details\/The+House+of+Tudor+-+at+home+with+the+man+who+built+a+complete+copy+of+a+16th+century+home+from+scratch\/article.do\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article (with pictures)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way cool! From This Is London: [F]or 68-year-old Walter, who has spent the last four years painstakingly hand-crafting mullioned windows, stained glass, medieval-style carvings, you name it &#8211; it&#8217;s the realisation of a lifelong dream. &#8230; Walter&#8217;s pride and joy is the only faithful recreation of a Tudor home in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/a-man-after-my-own-heart\/\">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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}