{"id":1360,"date":"2009-03-02T22:52:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T06:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:04:18","slug":"a380-brass-dingus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1360","title":{"rendered":"#a380 :: Brass dingus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1361\" title=\"030309\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030309-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"030309\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030309-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030309-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I should be smarter. I should be able to classify and categorize based on Google findings if nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>But this one eludes me. <a href=\"http:\/\/josephreed.net\">Dad<\/a> sent it along, and it seems to be machine-turned brass from India &#8211; maybe even with spiritual or religious symbolic significance.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll be damned if I can figure out what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Readers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should be smarter. I should be able to classify and categorize based on Google findings if nothing else. But this one eludes me. Dad sent it along, and it seems to be machine-turned brass from India &#8211; maybe even with spiritual or religious symbolic significance. But I&#8217;ll be damned if I can figure out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,19,38,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-ephemera","category-fetish","category-my-fathers-hlos","category-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}