{"id":720,"date":"2006-12-02T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T03:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=720"},"modified":"2006-12-02T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T03:40:42","slug":"from-pearls-to-pachyderms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"From pearls to pachyderms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in Southern California used to make jewelry and one of my favorite pair of earrings was from her &#8211; pearls dangling on a silver frame. Unfortunately, I dipped the whole thing in silver cleaner and stripped the luster right off the pearls.<\/p>\n<p>So I stopped in The Bead Shop on Magazine today and through some sort of surreal process wound up having the woman make a new pair of earrings right in front of me &#8211; wooden elephants dancing on a ball that I found in a large bowl of wood carved animals. I hung the elephants from a dangling silver chain and attached them right to the silver frame my pearls were on. <\/p>\n<p>Then she made me a long sterling chain to put the pendant L, man of mystery, gave me. <\/p>\n<p>So after a day of gift buying &#8211; remote control truck, plaster shotgun house art, cocktail napkins with pithy sayings, one blown glass water pipe &#8211; mama came home with something something too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in Southern California used to make jewelry and one of my favorite pair of earrings was from her &#8211; pearls dangling on a silver frame. Unfortunately, I dipped the whole thing in silver cleaner and stripped the luster right off the pearls. So I stopped in The Bead Shop on Magazine today and through some sort of surreal process wound up having the woman make a new pair of earrings right in front&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}