{"id":1811560,"date":"2023-01-16T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1811560"},"modified":"2023-01-16T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:16:30","slug":"the-lake-district-in-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/the-lake-district-in-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lake District in Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av-embeds\/64223322\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-england-derbyshire-64223322\">BBC News has the story<\/a> of Jon Tordoff\u2019s 100-square-foot scale model of the Lake District, which he built during lockdown out of LEGO pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff BBC News has the story of Jon Tordoff\u2019s 100-square-foot scale model of the Lake District, which he built during lockdown out of LEGO pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[372,1136,27,71],"class_list":["post-1811560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-big-maps","tag-lake-district","tag-lego","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1784840,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/dan-bells-tolkien-style-maps-of-the-lake-district\/","url_meta":{"origin":1811560,"position":0},"title":"Dan Bell&#8217;s &#8216;Tolkien-Style&#8217; Maps of the Lake District","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 January 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Maps of real places done up in the style of fantasy maps are a thing, as those who have been following along will know by now. 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