{"id":15519,"date":"2010-06-01T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/06\/01\/turpentine-and-dad\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"turpentine-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/06\/01\/turpentine-and-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine and Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\">I used wood-wax on something this weekend, and the smell of it reminded me of my Dad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">When I was little, he would stand me on his work-bench on a Sunday morning, my little feet in his big shoes while he polished them for church.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">These kinds of memories keep coming up for me lately, about my dad&#8217;s influence on me as I was growing up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">When my partner and I moved into this house a few weeks ago, we had to assemble a lot of furniture. Tightening screws, I was frequently reminded of his lessons about tightening them evenly, each a little bit, rather than screwing one down at a time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Lots of things like that &#8212; tiny lessons that are so ingrained, and still useful.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I love my dad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1188\/turpentine-and-dad0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used wood-wax on something this weekend, and the smell of it reminded me of my Dad. When I was little, he would stand me on his work-bench on a Sunday morning, my little feet in his big shoes while he polished them for church. These kinds of memories keep coming up for me lately, [&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-15519","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\/15519","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=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}