{"id":4234,"date":"2018-08-04T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2020-06-22T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:20:13","slug":"yet-another-bullet-hole-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/yet-another-bullet-hole-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Bullet-hole Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered another bullet-hole chair, only this one was bullet riddled.<\/p>\n<p>It leaned against a dead milking parlor of an abandoned dairy farm. It might have leaned there for years, decades.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the chair while waiting to deliver goods for the dog sanctuary rummage sale. There it was, riddled through metal on one side, cushion blown out the other.<\/p>\n<p>Someone used it for target practice and they were apparently a good marksman.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about taking it home and adding it to my collection of bullet-hole chairs\u2014a matching set!<\/p>\n<p>But I left the chair behind because I wanted someone else to notice it, make up a wild story, perhaps even take it home and have it become the centerpiece of a home&#8217;s d\u00e9cor, like mine is.<\/p>\n<p>(Footnote: A few days after the discovery of the second bullet-hole chair, I was helping a friend clear out a garage when I saw two metal, cushioned folding chairs. I picked one of them up and noticed holes in the bottom in precisely the same arrangement as the aforementioned chair at the barn. I surmised they were present to provide ventilation for the cushion. No bullets made the holes. I still have just the one chair.)<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4234\" data-postid=\"4234\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4234 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered another bullet-hole chair, only this one was bullet riddled. It leaned against a dead milking parlor of an abandoned dairy farm. It might have leaned there for years, decades. I saw the chair while waiting to deliver goods for the dog sanctuary rummage sale. There it was, riddled through metal on one side, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-oregon-coast","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}