{"id":6188,"date":"2020-07-13T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:35:27","slug":"elbow-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/elbow-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbow Patches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>The other day I hunted through a Christian thrift store and found one of my more memorable treasures: Elbow Patches! \u201cGenuine Sueded (sic) Cowhide.\u201d It cost me a quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the groovy line illustration of the man wearing patches on his blazer! Look at the price! Look at the perforations for \u201ceasy sewing! These patches scream scholar, writer, beatnik, history teacher, poet, brooding intellectual, revolutionary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can&#8217;t we again be a nation of people who sew patches to \u201cadd new life and fashion to jackets, sweaters, coats?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have just the ancient and fraying Pendleton sweater that is perfect for these patches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only problem\u2014I can&#8217;t sew! Help me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I hunted through a Christian thrift store and found one of my more memorable treasures: Elbow Patches! \u201cGenuine Sueded (sic) Cowhide.\u201d It cost me a quarter. Look at the groovy line illustration of the man wearing patches on his blazer! Look at the price! Look at the perforations for \u201ceasy sewing! These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","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\/6188","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=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}