{"id":172,"date":"2011-04-27T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patpruitt.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-04-27T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:25:29","slug":"stepping-up-to-the-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/2011\/04\/27\/stepping-up-to-the-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Up to the Plate&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working with family&#8230;yeah, some of you know what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00a0 Fortunately for me, my younger brother, Chris Pruitt, is coming into his own as an artist.\u00a0 While we do have our brotherly spats from time to time, when it comes to working together, things tend to get done.<\/p>\n<p>I will admit, I am not an organic materials sort of person.\u00a0 Working with wood on past non-jewelry related projects has taught me a new found respect for all the woodworkers.\u00a0 Same goes for lapidary artists, I just cant seem to grasp it&#8230;elusive it is for me.\u00a0 For my brother on the other hand, he is truly talented in cutting, grinding, and polishing stones with precision that makes me jealous.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably our third collaboration to date.\u00a0 A Belt Buckle and Bolo set, commissioned by a Gallery that represents the both of us.\u00a0 We always try to challenge our skill set when working on collaborative pieces, this was no exception.\u00a0 All cut from Stainless Steel, Inliad with 24K Gold, Natural Lone Mountain Turquoise and Natural Coral.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-172 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/2011\/04\/27\/stepping-up-to-the-plate\/img_2881\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/files\/2011\/04\/img_2881-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/2011\/04\/27\/stepping-up-to-the-plate\/img_2929\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/files\/2011\/04\/img_2929-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/files\/2011\/04\/img_2929.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with family&#8230;yeah, some of you know what I&#8217;m talking about.\u00a0 Fortunately for me, my younger brother, Chris Pruitt, is coming into his own as an artist.\u00a0 While we do have our brotherly spats from time to time, when it comes to working together, things tend to get done. I will admit, I am not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}