{"id":10,"date":"2011-01-23T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linapearson.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=8"},"modified":"2011-10-06T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:53:29","slug":"back-to-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/2011\/01\/23\/back-to-copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Copper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All those scraps piled behind my grandfather&#8217;s shop were sorted into copper, steel, aluminum and various colours of plastic sheet and they were saved because of their value.<br \/>\nExploring my memories I discover why I was so particularly drawn to copper as a youngster. For one, the scraps of copper had the most interesting shapes because of how my grandfather used copper for the shipbuilding industry. He made many, many circular floats by drawing a metal disk down over a wooden mold turning in a lathe.<br \/>\nThe circle pocked scraps out in our west coast weather took on the most remarkable patinas!<\/p>\n<p>As I use copper more and more in my jewelry, I&#8217;m hungry to learn more about this not-so-base metal.<br \/>\nEspecailly how to preserve patinas!<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/misstory_designs\/5894775371\/in\/photostream'>Grandad\\&#039;s copperspinning 1060\\&#039;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All those scraps piled behind my grandfather&#8217;s shop were sorted into copper, steel, aluminum and various colours of plastic sheet and they were saved because of their value. Exploring my memories I discover why I was so particularly drawn to copper as a youngster. For one, the scraps of copper had the most interesting shapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/linapearson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}