{"id":824,"date":"2009-07-30T23:50:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2009-08-27T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T05:42:44","slug":"little-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Little Castles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/little_castles.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-825\" title=\"little_castles\" src=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/little_castles.jpg\" alt=\"little_castles\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/little_castles.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/little_castles-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=101\">My grandmother&#8217;s<\/a> favorite craft\/hobby was to construct these little castles from leftover scraps and refuse from around the house. Sometimes her depression era ways would confound and annoy my brother and I but nowadays she&#8217;d be rather fashionable. We should be having a resurgence of depression era habits very soon.<\/p>\n<p>She would gather empty cereal boxes, baking soda boxes, oatmeal canisters, toilet and cardboard tubes and the ubiquitous Bisquik boxes that seemed to be everywhere in her house (her breakfast specialty was waffles) and glue them together to form the shape of the castle. She&#8217;d then spray paint them whichever color suited her fancy but usually white. From the Sunday Los Angeles Times magazines she&#8217;d collect clippings of windows, doors and all sorts of other objects which she would glue on the exterior of the castles. The steeples were made from construction paper. We&#8217;d sometimes help her but she seemed to find solace and relaxation in creating these little castles on her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s favorite craft\/hobby was to construct these little castles from leftover scraps and refuse from around the house. Sometimes her depression era ways would confound and annoy my brother and I but nowadays she&#8217;d be rather fashionable. We should be having a resurgence of depression era habits very soon. She would gather empty cereal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Castles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}