{"id":1128,"date":"2009-01-04T01:21:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:07:12","slug":"a325-padlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"#a325 :: Padlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1129\" title=\"ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010309-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010309-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010309-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/010309.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Two chunks of cast brass, loop of hardened steel, a little red paint.<\/p>\n<p>An amulet against burglary. A barrier against the night.<\/p>\n<p>Put it in your magpie&#8217;s hoard. Slip it into your boxing glove. Clamp it through the hasp of your Navy trunk and lose the key, dooming yourself to a 10-minute round of cursing and destroying the hasp with a hatchet until you stagger back, winded and sweating, and wondering &#8220;What was <i>that<\/i> all about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who knew there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xAg-PS57VZ8\">entire collection of videos<\/a> dedicated to picking the things?<\/p>\n<p>Such a meaty weight, the brass warms in your hand as you heft it, and try to imagine its past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two chunks of cast brass, loop of hardened steel, a little red paint. An amulet against burglary. A barrier against the night. Put it in your magpie&#8217;s hoard. Slip it into your boxing glove. Clamp it through the hasp of your Navy trunk and lose the key, dooming yourself to a 10-minute round of cursing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-objet","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}