{"id":99,"date":"2010-01-19T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:20:12","slug":"99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/99\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By a request, I&#8217;ve been asked to design a book cover for today&#8217;s design of the day. That is no problem for me because book publishing is one of the funnest design projects possible. For this project, I was even recommended a couple of puns to use for the titles and authors. I felt they were such excellent titles that I plan on using all of them. Heck, I may even use the same title twice. If you have any more recommendations for future book titles, please feel free to come up with your own.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s book will be about a scientific exploration down the famous Yellow River in China. Historians say that the Yellow River and Yangtze River acted as a birthplace of eastern civilization in China, very similar to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the west. Due to this fact, I felt that the Yellow River would be a great setting for an exploration into ancient China similarly to Yellowstone being the back drop of <em>Letters to Yellowstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" title=\"Yellow River by I.P. Freeley\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yellow_river1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yellow_river1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yellow_river1-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I would like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/_asterione\/\" target=\"_blank\">_Asterione_<\/a> for her photo of the Yellow River. It is absolutely beautiful as the rest of her photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I created a book cover for a fictional book that explores the depths of ancient China. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/99\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-cover","tag-china","tag-pun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}