{"id":4636,"date":"2011-10-13T10:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:17:21","slug":"trash-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/13\/trash-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash or Treasure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s trash day in the neighborhood, and something I found in a neighbor’s pile of refuse has prompted me to create this new category: Trash or Treasure.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

While walking to work, I found this piece or framed, embroidered art among a huge pile of debris.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Looks like someone had a go at some Dungeons & Dragons decor. A bare-foot, elderly wood nymph grasps the shaft of a reclining unicorn’s horn while a dove inelegantly maintains flight above and a terrified, out-of-place koala tries to go unnoticed in a nearby tree.<\/p>\n

Whoever made it was proud enough to frame their efforts. Sadly, they weren’t proud enough of it to hang on to it.<\/p>\n

Is it trash or has some poor fool discarded a treasure?<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to listen to Songs From The Wood<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jethro Tull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s trash day in the neighborhood, and something I found in a neighbor’s pile of refuse has prompted me to create this new category: Trash or Treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[872],"tags":[274,877,875,785,880,43,878,876,828,873,879,874],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trash-or-treasure","tag-art","tag-embroidered","tag-fairie","tag-fantasy","tag-garbage","tag-humor","tag-needle-point","tag-renaissance-fair","tag-trash","tag-treasure","tag-unicorn","tag-wood-nymph"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1cM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5200,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/11\/10\/circle-thrift\/","url_meta":{"origin":4636,"position":0},"title":"At Circle Thrift","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it an ashtray? 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