{"id":14975,"date":"2018-08-24T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2018\/08\/24\/the-challenge-of-making-stuff\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:32","slug":"the-challenge-of-making-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2018\/08\/24\/the-challenge-of-making-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of Making Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1648\/20180824135917-Scan.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"comic 1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1648\/20180824135929-Scan%201.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"comic 2\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And Doug&#8217;s finally chewed beyond repair the hedgehog we bought him for his adoption anniversary:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1648\/20180824140551-P0010001.JPG\" alt=\"hedgehog stuffed toy\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He had a clever squeaker cap attached to a pleasingly crunchy water bottle inside, so I salvaged that and made a new toy &#8212; an abominable critter, which contains a squeaky Dr. Pepper bottle into which I placed the trimmed bit of a &#8220;calming scent&#8221; collar (not that it ever worked). So this toy not only resembles an animal, it also squeaks and <em>makes a smell!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And looks ghastly, I know.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1648\/20180824140913-P0020002.JPG\" alt=\"abominable critter\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Doug&#8217;s finally chewed beyond repair the hedgehog we bought him for his adoption anniversary: He had a clever squeaker cap attached to a pleasingly crunchy water bottle inside, so I salvaged that and made a new toy &#8212; an abominable critter, which contains a squeaky Dr. Pepper bottle into which I placed the trimmed [&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-14975","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\/14975","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=14975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}