{"id":1372,"date":"2009-03-04T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:02:50","slug":"a382-brass-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"#a382 :: Brass bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1373\" title=\"030409\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030409-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"030409\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030409-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030409-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/030409.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>These have been floating around my parents&#8217; house for as long as I can remember, by the dozens, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a pair serving as a keyfob, another set tied to a Christmas ornament, it seems, and various bells clinking around amidst their never-ending and unintentional collection of heavy little objects.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d guess they came from India, where our family traveled for two intoxicating, culture-shocked weeks when I was 14, and where <a href=\"http:\/\/josephreed.net\">Dad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kitreed.net\">Mom<\/a> returned several times to lecture.<\/p>\n<p>Turn them to the right angle and they become wide-mouthed frogs with wagging, jangling tongues. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bells.mp4\">shake them and listen. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These have been floating around my parents&#8217; house for as long as I can remember, by the dozens, it seems. There&#8217;s a pair serving as a keyfob, another set tied to a Christmas ornament, it seems, and various bells clinking around amidst their never-ending and unintentional collection of heavy little objects. I&#8217;d guess they came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adornment","category-fetish","category-instrument","category-my-fathers-hlos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}