{"id":440,"date":"2008-03-08T23:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2008-03-09T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T06:56:11","slug":"a24-alphanumeric-stamp-punches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"#a24 :: Alphanumeric stamp-punches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030808.jpg\" title=\"030808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/030808.thumbnail.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" alt=\"030808.jpg\" \/><\/a>Two blue plastic cases, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrafreesamples.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">help<\/a>  packed solid with thumb-length slugs of hardened steel. Each slug&#8217;s tip spells out a number or letter in reverse.Put the letter-end onto the thing to be marked. Thump the other end hard with a hammer. The blow makes a metallic &#8220;<em>ding<\/em>&#8220;. The target is marked &#8211; forever &#8211; with one crisp character.The full alphabet runs A through Z, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-buy.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">adiposity<\/a>  plus a dash to round out the stack to fit in to a box three letters by seven. It goes for  $18 in the Chinese-tools stall at the weekly Mexican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsswapmeet.com\/lacc\/\">swap meet<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacitycollege.edu\/\">L.A. City College<\/a> every Sunday. $12 for the numbers.It can mark <em>anything<\/em> permanently. Anything that is not already harder. Anything that is not harder than hardened steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two blue plastic cases, help packed solid with thumb-length slugs of hardened steel. Each slug&#8217;s tip spells out a number or letter in reverse.Put the letter-end onto the thing to be marked. Thump the other end hard with a hammer. The blow makes a metallic &#8220;ding&#8220;. The target is marked &#8211; forever &#8211; with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}