{"id":1146,"date":"2020-09-03T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:36:02","slug":"why-my-fixation-on-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Why My Fixation on Marbles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a young boy, I loved marbles. \u00c2\u00a0I really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play the traditional marble games, but was fascinated by the various colors and styles of different types of marbles. \u00c2\u00a0By the time I was 12 years old, I had a large Crisco can filled with my collection of marbles. Then they were gone. \u00c2\u00a0Our house burned completely to the ground, leaving our family with only the clothes we were wearing.<\/p>\n

\"Marbles\"<\/p>\n

Sifting through the ashes and rubble, I found only these five melted marbles from my collection, which I have saved in an old film canister for the last 55 years.<\/p>\n

Now in my woodworking, I think I love making marble runs and toys as much as anything. \u00c2\u00a0The recent marble trees are just one example. \u00c2\u00a0More to come!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a young boy, I loved marbles. \u00c2\u00a0I really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play the traditional marble games, but was fascinated by the various colors and styles of different types of marbles. \u00c2\u00a0By the time I was 12 years old, I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-224"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}