{"id":1627,"date":"2012-05-16T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2012-05-16T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:52:38","slug":"milking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Milking it."},"content":{"rendered":"

Years and years (and years) ago, when I was growing up, my Grandmother bought an old milk can. It was restored by mom and her sisters. Sanded down, repainted black, and an applique decal from Root’s Lumber applied:<\/p>\n

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From that point forward, it always sat near the doorway between my Grandmother’s living room and the “middle” room (formerly a dining room). It was still sitting there when she passed in 2008.<\/p>\n

Strange how some things just seems to have been around forever. Sort of like a pair of teacups that had been on a shelf in her kitchen for as long as I can remember:<\/p>\n

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They’d hold her rings when she’d do the dishes… and sometimes, they’d hold change or her watch.<\/p>\n

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The restaurant is long gone, and I’ll have to question my parents about the significance of it, as I’m sure there was one.<\/p>\n

Silver Blue, over and… out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Years and years (and years) ago, when I was growing up, my Grandmother bought an old milk can. It was restored by mom and her sisters. Sanded down, repainted black, and an applique decal from Root’s Lumber applied: From that point forward, it always sat near the doorway between my Grandmother’s living room and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[288,456,571,569,567,568,570],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-canon","tag-digital-rebel-xti","tag-eagle-applique","tag-huntington","tag-milk-can","tag-tea-cups","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}