{"id":6097,"date":"2011-09-08T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:53:05","slug":"day-251-open-source-pied-piper-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/09\/08\/day-251-open-source-pied-piper-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 251: Open source Pied Piper #Inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4468\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110908.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4468\" data-attachment-id=\"4468\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/quail-ridge-studio-floorplan-150x150-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/quail-ridge-studio-floorplan-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" 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=\"quail-ridge-studio-floorplan-150&amp;#215;150\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/quail-ridge-studio-floorplan-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4468\" title=\"Pied Piper of Open Source\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110908.png?resize=315%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pied Piper of Open Source\" width=\"315\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pied Piper of Open Source<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3654],"tags":[411,457,486,674],"class_list":{"0":"post-6097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portfolio","7":"tag-inkscape","8":"tag-languages","9":"tag-linux","10":"tag-programming","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1Al","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5884,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2011\/02\/08\/39-of-365-is-a-life-swallowed-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":6097,"position":0},"title":"39 of 365 is a life, swallowed #Inkscape","author":"lemsy","date":"2011-02-08","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I recently decided to jump-start submissions for requests on 365 by asking for random captions and titles for pieces. 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