{"id":8526,"date":"2014-04-07T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8526"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:29:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:29:27","slug":"what-the-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8526","title":{"rendered":"What the Dickens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am back at my hotel in Notting Hill, resting up after taking on the National Gallery, the British Museum, and the Charles Dickens Museum all in one day. Needless to say, I spotted many a &#8220;make-do&#8221; at the two large institutions, but I was surprised to find a 19th century cut crystal and silver ewer with staple repairs to the base hiding in plain sight in Charles Dickens&#8217; dining room!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0289\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0289.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8527\" alt=\"IMG_0286\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0286.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0286.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0286-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0288.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8528\" alt=\"IMG_0288\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0288.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0288.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0288-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am back at my hotel in Notting Hill, resting up after taking on the National Gallery, the British Museum, and the Charles Dickens Museum all in one day. Needless to say, I spotted many a &#8220;make-do&#8221; at the two large institutions, but I was surprised to find a 19th century cut crystal and silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[32,120],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal","tag-glass","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","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=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}