{"id":868,"date":"2008-10-08T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-10-08T21:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:33:12","slug":"an-ancient-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"An Ancient Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a very old General Store in Maine I bought some postcards.\u00a0 They gave them to me in a small paper sack that had a glassine liner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2925517098\/bag.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3262\/2925517098_64b639f25d_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Bag\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may be that the bags were old stock because I haven&#8217;t seen a bag like this for forty-five years.\u00a0 Maybe the machine that made them still exists but I doubt it.\u00a0 Are plastic bags an improvement over paper?\u00a0 They certainly use less resources.\u00a0 But this is a beautiful bag. Did I mention it has a glassine liner?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2924665305\/bag-detail.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3045\/2924665305_9a9c9b1e2d_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Bag detail\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a very old General Store in Maine I bought some postcards.\u00a0 They gave them to me in a small paper sack that had a glassine liner. It may be that the bags were old stock because I haven&#8217;t seen a bag like this for forty-five years.\u00a0 Maybe the machine that made them still exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-postcards","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}