{"id":155,"date":"2010-01-24T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-07-13T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:52:45","slug":"34-of-365-is-a-soft-edged-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/24\/34-of-365-is-a-soft-edged-form\/","title":{"rendered":"34 of 365 is a soft edged form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100124.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" data-attachment-id=\"156\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/01\/24\/34-of-365-is-a-soft-edged-form\/attachment\/20100124\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100124.png?fit=495%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"495,493\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Soft edged form &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Soft edged form &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Soft edged form &amp;#8211; LeMasney Consulting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100124.png?fit=495%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20100124.png?resize=495%2C493&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Soft edged form - LeMasney Consulting\" width=\"495\" height=\"493\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soft edged form &#8211; LeMasney Consulting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a soft edged form using the blur tools in Inkscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a soft edged form using the blur tools in Inkscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[335,365,411,3870,839,854,865],"class_list":{"0":"post-155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-consulting","8":"tag-gimp","9":"tag-graphics","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-john-lemasney","12":"tag-tools","13":"tag-typography","14":"tag-vector-based","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/20100124.png?fit=495%2C493&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-2v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5855,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/01\/10\/10-of-365-is-a-poster-illustrating-cigar-types-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":155,"position":0},"title":"A guide to common cigar types, lengths, and diameters by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #poster #design #cc","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-01-10","format":false,"excerpt":"So this poster is\u00a0my way of saying that I'm not ready to stop using Inkscape for daily sketches, and that other open source applications might be used to complete an idea. 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