{"id":1720,"date":"2013-11-15T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:35:15","slug":"unorthodox-uses-for-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2013\/11\/15\/unorthodox-uses-for-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Unorthodox uses for things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by <a href=\"http:\/\/lindabradshaw.com\/\" title=\"Linda Bradshaw\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Bradshaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was teaching decorative painting at the adult education classes at night, I often found myself needing more than two hands to accomplish what I wanted to do. Sometimes I needed to prop up a teaching aide on the easel board, but it would not be convenient to put it down on the tray. A lot of times it would just topple off of the bottom tray. It was a real challenge! So one day I was in the hardware department of the local department store, looking for a solution to the problem and found some spring clamps that would solve the problem &#8211; I could use one of them to clip the teaching aide(s) onto the side of the easel pad. I&#8217;m pretty sure that was not the original intention of the clamps, but they do a great job and I&#8217;m glad that I found them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Linda Bradshaw When I was teaching decorative painting at the adult education classes at night, I often found myself needing more than two hands to accomplish what I wanted to do. Sometimes I needed to prop up a teaching aide on the easel board, but it would not be convenient to put &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2013\/11\/15\/unorthodox-uses-for-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unorthodox uses for things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,32],"tags":[146,147,210],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-organization-2","category-shopping","tag-clamps","tag-classes","tag-decorative-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}