{"id":1391,"date":"2009-12-09T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-09\/1391"},"modified":"2009-12-09T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:24:14","slug":"stone-puzzle-what-am-i-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-09\/1391","title":{"rendered":"Stone Puzzle &#8220;What am I?&#8221; Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1391'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"027752\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_027752.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_027752_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"odd assemblage of carved stones What am I? -- Nishimura Stone Lantern workworkshopshop and garden -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i027752\"\ntitle=\"odd assemblage of carved stones What am I? -- Nishimura Stone Lantern workworkshopshop and garden -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 5000 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_027752.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_027752.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/>odd assemblage of carved stones\n<br\/><span class='caption'>What am I?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>So, I didn't stump anyone in my previous &#8220;<a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-12-01\/1382\" class='pt'>Fairly Dirty\n<b>What am I?<\/b> Quiz<\/a>&#8221;, and probably won't this time either, but while\nin the <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-03\/1385\">back gardens<\/a>\nbehind the <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-02\/1383\"><i>Nishimura\nStone Lanterns<\/i> workshop<\/a>, amid the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-12-05\/1387\">bounty of photogenic\nbeauty<\/a> of 800 years worth of stone carvings, <span class='nobr'>I came across<\/span> the above\nassemblage of stone (granite, <span class='nobr'>I assume<\/span>) whose purpose, like many of the\npieces <span class='nobr'>I encountered<\/span> that day, seemed mysterious to me.<\/p>\n\n<p>It sort of looks like a bench, but it's much smaller than that... maybe 8&#8221; (20cm) tall.<\/p>\n\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-10\/1392\" class='quiet'>Stonecarver-related posts are continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I didn't stump anyone in my previous \"Fairly Dirty <b>What am I?<\/b> Quiz\", and probably won't this time either, but while in the back gardens behind the Nishimura Stone Lanterns workshop, amid the bounty of photogenic beauty of 800 years worth of stone carvings, I came across the above assemblage of stone (granite, I assume) whose purpose, like many of the pieces I encountered that day, seemed mysterious to me.<\/p> <p>It sort of looks like a bench, but it's much smaller than that... maybe 8\" (20cm) tall.<\/p> <p>What is it?<\/p> <p>Stonecarver-related posts are continued here...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,23,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}