{"id":331,"date":"2007-09-26T07:27:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/?p=331"},"modified":"2007-09-26T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T13:29:01","slug":"threw-my-first-pot-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/threw-my-first-pot-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Threw my first pot yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t exactly <em>throw<\/em> a pot but I did actually fashion my very first piece of pottery at the grand old age of 44!  Our teacher began by introducing us to a pinch pot.  We started by rolling up a ball of clay and sticking a thumb in it to make the bowl, manipulating the clay until it was the same width all the way around.  We got to have a couple of practice shots before we made a piece that will actually be fired.  Even though we were making a very simple pot you quickly became aware of all those little details that need attention to make something beautiful rather than adequate.  Clearly, <em>practice, practice, practice<\/em>, is the order of the day.  I suspect I will end up with a piece that only a mother could love!<\/p>\n<p>The one rather odd aspect of this pinch potting was I realised that I made it left handedly, which, for a generally right handed person, is definitely strange.  (There are a number of things I do naturally left handed but nothing so major.)<\/p>\n<p>Current temperature: here 9c\/48F, there 43F\/6C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I didn&#8217;t exactly throw a pot but I did actually fashion my very first piece of pottery at the grand old age of 44! Our teacher began by introducing us to a pinch pot. We started by rolling up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/threw-my-first-pot-yesterday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-sabbatical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZUC-5l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}