{"id":34,"date":"2011-01-20T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/club\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-03-31T22:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T03:18:37","slug":"a-hunk-o-cast-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/a-hunk-o-cast-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hunk o&#8217; Cast Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new toy!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rather heavy toy.\u00a0 Cast-iron.\u00a0 With black paint and stencil.\u00a0 And a wheel crank that resembles a ship&#8217;s steering wheel.\u00a0 Except cast iron, like I said.\u00a0 It arrived in a heavy box with thick extruded foam as packaging (FedEx guy wasn&#8217;t pleased, but then again, he never is).\u00a0 Why would a bookseller get excited about a hunk o&#8217; iron, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>It has a date on it, which isn&#8217;t unusual for things around here.\u00a0 It reads 1893, which isn&#8217;t even particularly early for things around here.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s a tool.\u00a0 Obviously not a book, but it&#8217;s for books.\u00a0 Why it has a label that reads &#8220;Best of Show, Columbian Exposition&#8221; I&#8217;m not exactly certain what that means, but it sounds cool.<\/p>\n<p>Give up yet?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a book press.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t she pretty?\u00a0 I showed her off tonight at our NOBS Forum of Show &amp; Tell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bookpress-1893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35\" title=\"bookpress-1893\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bookpress-1893-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bookpress-1893-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bookpress-1893.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new toy!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rather heavy toy.\u00a0 Cast-iron.\u00a0 With black paint and stencil.\u00a0 And a wheel crank that resembles a ship&#8217;s steering wheel.\u00a0 Except cast iron, like I said.\u00a0 It arrived in a heavy box with thick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/a-hunk-o-cast-iron\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,27],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}