{"id":457,"date":"2013-05-13T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:46:41","slug":"brass-cuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"brass cuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"drilling holes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8734721063\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7313\/8734721063_24a89966fe_z.jpg\" alt=\"drilling holes\" width=\"377\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"sawing through brass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8734720607\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7293\/8734720607_f64c6e5ba8_z.jpg\" alt=\"sawing through brass\" width=\"576\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"tools of the trade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8735838596\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7324\/8735838596_bf6def42d9_z.jpg\" alt=\"tools of the trade\" width=\"576\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"filing brass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8735838140\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7304\/8735838140_1eba3f9137_z.jpg\" alt=\"filing brass\" width=\"576\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"brass cuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8735837366\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7309\/8735837366_449dfe38a4_z.jpg\" alt=\"brass cuff\" width=\"576\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"the closure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8735837798\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7323\/8735837798_a9409fe506_z.jpg\" alt=\"the closure\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I spent most of Friday and Saturday sawing, drilling, filing, and hammering this cuff into shape. My mom admired a similar bracelet while we were out shopping last month, and when I got home, I sketched up my own design. I love how it turned out, but I probably won&#8217;t make anything like it for  quite a while&#8211; it required the kind of arduous work that only a  mother&#8217;s day present can inspire. The cut-out is a favorite shape of mine, an homage to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gothic_architecture#Lancet_arch\" target=\"_blank\">Gothic architecture<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve long admired. Not one to waste, I used the cut-out scrap to make myself a matching necklace:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"necklace + bracelet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8735836976\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7316\/8735836976_4a49081cfa_z.jpg\" alt=\"necklace + bracelet\" width=\"576\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m so fortunate to have not one, but two amazing mothers in my life. Happy mother&#8217;s day, ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I spent most of Friday and Saturday sawing, drilling, filing, and hammering this cuff into shape. My mom admired a similar bracelet while we were out shopping last month, and when I got home, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}