{"id":1917,"date":"2013-11-29T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2013-11-29T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:51:45","slug":"its-about-delicacy-and-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s About Delicacy, And Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot resist videos of craftspeople at work. My fantasy, perhaps, of being such a worker, or wishing that I\u2019d settled upon an art whose product was more immediately tangible, useful (and maybe saleable). I like knives, and one of those fantasies involves building a forge in the garage and fashioning Damascus steel, but who can say when\/if that\u2019s going to happen, what with so many poems in need of writing. In the meantime I\u2019ll live through others, like Murray Carter, who apprenticed in Japan and is now a master bladesmith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79844244\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If like me you are into this genre of short film, you will admire this parody featuring the American Master Plunger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/70266394\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot resist videos of craftspeople at work. My fantasy, perhaps, of being such a worker, or wishing that I\u2019d settled upon an art whose product was more immediately tangible, useful (and maybe saleable). I like knives, and one of those fantasies involves building a forge in the garage and fashioning Damascus steel, but who can say when\/if that\u2019s going &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}