{"id":1155,"date":"2009-01-15T22:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T05:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:45:13","slug":"a336-railroad-date-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"#a336 :: Railroad date nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1156\" title=\"011509\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011509-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"011509\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011509-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011509-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011509.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/nailhunter.ehost.com\/\">the Nailhunter<\/a>, who has a dizzyingly exhaustive collection of these online, workers pounded date nails into railroad ties, bridges and telephone poles to identify and date the structure, sequence and ownership of the structures.<\/p>\n<p>You can pick them up at swap meets for a buck or two.<\/p>\n<p>This one really appealed to my sense of symmetry and my magpie obsession with shiny little bits of metal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Nailhunter, who has a dizzyingly exhaustive collection of these online, workers pounded date nails into railroad ties, bridges and telephone poles to identify and date the structure, sequence and ownership of the structures. You can pick them up at swap meets for a buck or two. This one really appealed to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-symbol","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}