{"id":7343,"date":"2021-09-20T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2021-09-20T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:27:11","slug":"hail-to-ace-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/hail-to-ace-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail to Ace Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7343\" data-postid=\"7343\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7343 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I push open a wooden and glass door and enter a mom and pop Ace Hardware on a weekday morning. There are no giant monitors blaring advertisements. There is no garish lighting. There are no computers to look up stock. I need safe drain cleaner. Two hardware pros wearing vests and headsets are helping customers. I am greeted by another pro, an older man, and he asks how he can help me. I tell him. He leads the way down a a tiny aisle. We stop. We discuss various products. It is quite possible he knows something about every single item in this store. I ask him for a recommendation and he gives one. I purchase the product and leave the store. It all took less than five minutes. I had no trouble locating my car in the parking lot because there is no parking lot. I walked there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh joy with my time in Ace! I talked to a knowledgeable employee within seconds of my entry. I suspect he was paid a living wage. I wonder how people come to possess so much knowledge of hardware. I have virtually no knowledge outside of the best tools to tear shit down or hack blackberries. I would love to be a hardware man like the Ace pros and put people at ease while buying hardware. But it&#8217;s too late for that. You can&#8217;t really acquire this knowledge unless you do hardware type tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damn, I hope something in the house needs a hardware fix soon. I love being around professional hardware people of an independently owned hardware store.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I push open a wooden and glass door and enter a mom and pop Ace Hardware on a weekday morning. There are no giant monitors blaring advertisements. There is no garish lighting. There are no computers to look up stock. I need safe drain cleaner. Two hardware pros wearing vests and headsets are helping customers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7343","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\/7343","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=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7346,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}