{"id":28464,"date":"2017-03-10T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=28464"},"modified":"2017-02-24T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T02:06:02","slug":"flower-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/flower-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie was asked what his most prized possession was and it was a chrysanthemum he pressed from his wedding in 1980. I think there&#8217;s something to be said for sampling the physical world and taking a piece of it with you. My flower press is two small pieces of plywood a quarter-inch thick with some pieces of cardboard and parchment paper. It&#8217;s the size of an index card. You can make one: drill four holes in two pieces of wood, put in some screws and some wing-nuts and some washers and that&#8217;s it. You put a flower in for about a month and it comes out as thin as paper.  It&#8217;s a nice break from digital technology. The degree of depth and complexity and beauty that the analog worlds has is stupendous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for drying and pressing flowers and leaves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28466,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions\/28466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}