{"id":14940,"date":"2019-03-20T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/03\/20\/letters-and-change\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:51:00","slug":"letters-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/03\/20\/letters-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I wrote a letter to an old friend. A real, physical letter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1693\/20190320183611-AFF8B114-0C26-4BB4-AFB0-7E74A4F49AF6.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"a typed letter\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I recently made a new change-purse for my pocket, because my previous one was starting to fall apart. For the outsides, I used two sample pieces for window-blinds. The zipper came from a bag of rice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1693\/20190320183746-CCABF039-520B-4B97-9736-1967178B1431.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"change purse\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It feels so good to do real things.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Of course, now that\u2019s being sold as a reaction to the predominance of digital life \u2014 a weird hybrid where one does analogue things in a performative way in order to then post pictures online of a superior wholesome offline lifestyle. (Which I suppose I\u2019ve just done here.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a confusing time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the rice bag? It became a dog toy\/pillow filled with stuffing and various squeakers from dead toys. When Doug puts his head on it, it quacks like a duck.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1693\/20190320184057-037D03DF-CC35-4A3C-AC74-DB714EDEFF73.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"rice bag dog toy\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I wrote a letter to an old friend. A real, physical letter. I recently made a new change-purse for my pocket, because my previous one was starting to fall apart. For the outsides, I used two sample pieces for window-blinds. The zipper came from a bag of rice. It feels so good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}