{"id":16,"date":"2015-06-16T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/newwp\/?p=16"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T07:51:15","slug":"54-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/54-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"54 Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>54 Cities<\/em> is a deck of cards &#8211; and also a set of walks around Kensington and Chelsea. Each suit in the deck (Hearts, Clubs, Spades and Diamonds) matches up with a route.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>Players take part by following the routes and look at the illustrations and stories on the cards, figuring\u00a0out which one matches the place where they&#8217;re standing.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The individual walks are designed to take between one and two hours, passing through parks and leafy backstreets &#8211; and past plenty of places to stop for a quick cup of tea. Each route has its own theme &#8211; loss and obsession for hearts, for example, and the hidden underground stories of the street for spades.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Some of the stories you&#8217;ll uncover as you walk are well-known. Some are almost unheard-of. We&#8217;re pretty sure that most of them are true.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Play by getting a deck of cards.\u00a0They&#8217;re\u00a0available from 19 June\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/intransitfestival.bigcartel.com\/product\/54-cities-a-walking-puzzle-limited-edition-of-250\">on the InTRANSIT website<\/a><\/div>\n<div>and at:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/dauntbooks.co.uk\/shops.asp\">Daunt Books<\/a>, 112-114 Holland Park Avenue, W11 4UA<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyjam.co.uk\">Honeyjam<\/a>, 2 Blenheim Crescent, W11 1NN<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutyensrubinstein.co.uk\/bookshop-homepage\">Lutyens and Rubensten<\/a>, 21 Kensington Park Rd, W11 2EV<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookandkitchen.com\">Book + Kitchen<\/a>, 31 All Saints Road, London W11 1HE<\/div>\n<p>Game sets are also available to borrow from the libraries in the borough.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<em>54 Cities<\/em>\u00a0was created as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbkc.gov.uk\/subsites\/intransit.aspx\">InTRANSIT festival<\/a>, and was inspired by the 54 cities of Thomas More&#8217;s <em>Utopia<\/em>.\u00a0Illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinapaukova.com\/\">Martina Paukova<\/a>, design by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiomeow.info\/\">Studio M E O W<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54 Cities is a deck of cards &#8211; and also a set of walks around Kensington and Chelsea. Each suit in the deck (Hearts, Clubs, Spades and Diamonds) matches up with a route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9,6,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}