{"id":573884117,"date":"2012-11-05T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884117"},"modified":"2012-11-11T15:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:16:19","slug":"what-bric-a-brac-says-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/what-bric-a-brac-says-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What bric-a-brac says about us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday. Class prep. Emails. Working on websites.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov24.jpg\" alt=\"Barney Fife\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Saw this in a restaurant last night. We had Italian in the middle of nowhere. The restaurant was tacked onto this building that housed knick knacks and bric-a-brac. By the restroom, which had a sketch of Bobby Jones and another of Jesus, there was a display case full of coins and Zippos and knifes and confederate money and a head shot of George Wallace. It was almost everything you might need to try to understand the culture of a middle of nowhere place. <\/p>\n<p>Above it all was this picture of Barney Fife. What the case couldn&#8217;t give you in playing armchair sociologist, this photograph might. It is clearly a promotional poster. VIP Printing and Graphics is a firm in Georgia. All of this explains itself.<\/p>\n<p>The lady that ran the restaurant said she was from upstate New York. She&#8217;d been in the South for a few years. I wonder if she&#8217;s been able to make sense of it all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out why Bobby Jones&#8217; backswing was hanging in the restroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday. Class prep. Emails. Working on websites. Saw this in a restaurant last night. We had Italian in the middle of nowhere. The restaurant was tacked onto this building that housed knick knacks and bric-a-brac. By the restroom, which had a sketch of Bobby Jones and another of Jesus, there was a display case full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884118,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884117\/revisions\/573884118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}