{"id":735,"date":"2010-03-19T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-01-06T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T20:15:46","slug":"cast-iron-clothes-iron-c-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Cast iron clothes iron, c.1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every household in America had one. Many, such as this one, have a replaced handle. Some irons were just too heavy to support a lighter handle and many snapped off after years of constant use. Currently this iron is being used as a doorstop in my office and I almost forgot to include it in my blog. It is one of a select few &#8220;inventive repairs&#8221; that I am using in my home for a purpose other than what it was originally intended for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4712\" title=\"IMG_3142\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31421.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31421.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31421-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faint remains of the original handle are visible on either side of the replaced handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4713\" title=\"IMG_3145\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31451.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31451-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lucky survivor still has its original handle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/antique-iron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-738\" title=\"antique-iron\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/antique-iron-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/antique-iron-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/antique-iron.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthpoint.com\">WorthPoint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every household in America had one. Many, such as this one, have a replaced handle. Some irons were just too heavy to support a lighter handle and many snapped off after years of constant use. Currently this iron is being used as a doorstop in my office and I almost forgot to include it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[62,123,40],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-american","tag-iron","tag-metal-handle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}