{"id":337,"date":"2012-02-07T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-02-07T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:10:38","slug":"theres-nothing-like-a-good-piece-of-hickory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Nothing Like a Good Piece of Hickory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pale-rider-1985-01-g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-338\" title=\"pale-rider-1985-01-g\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pale-rider-1985-01-g-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pale-rider-1985-01-g-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pale-rider-1985-01-g-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pale-rider-1985-01-g.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I managed to break an axe handle the other day, so I had to go buy a new one, and I have to say, nothing makes one feel like quite as much of a badass as carrying around an axe handle.\u00a0 An actual axe just feels utilitarian, but the handle alone is different (it would require further experimentation to determine whether a fiberglass handle would work as well as a wooden one, but I suspect not).\u00a0 I feel like I should write another JT Quinn story just to use this fact somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to break an axe handle the other day, so I had to go buy a new one, and I have to say, nothing makes one feel like quite as much of a badass as carrying around an axe handle.\u00a0 An actual axe just feels utilitarian, but the handle alone is different (it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}