{"id":1351,"date":"2009-09-07T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T12:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","slug":"we-have-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/we-have-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone know what it is?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqVhvcxrQ7I\/AAAAAAAAA8s\/n8tsmnWJzzQ\/s1600-h\/thing2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378812797770220466\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqVhvcxrQ7I\/AAAAAAAAA8s\/n8tsmnWJzzQ\/s400\/thing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yours truly has taken over as secretary for the management company for the building. As well as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">power!<\/span>\u00a0a large pile of paper we got &#8230; this.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqVhu261AmI\/AAAAAAAAA8k\/wu1RsgyOwT4\/s1600-h\/thing1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378812787608060514\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_JWWitj1uFEg\/SqVhu261AmI\/AAAAAAAAA8k\/wu1RsgyOwT4\/s400\/thing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outgoing secretary got it off his predecessor. No one knows quite what it&#8217;s for. It comes in its own little pouch. In the top picture you can just see a little roller inside the bit that squeezes down, though it doesn&#8217;t squeeze down very hard.<\/p>\n<p>We also got\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">power!<\/span>\u00a0an official company stamp, in a weighty metal stamping machine that embosses the paper with the stamp design. I can remember something like it from my grandfather&#8217;s study and it has a wonderful Victorian steampunky sort of feel to it. That, I can work out. The squeezy thing shown above, though &#8230; still guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone know what it is? Yours truly has taken over as secretary for the management company for the building. As well as\u00a0power!\u00a0a large pile of paper we got &#8230; this. The outgoing secretary got it off his predecessor. No one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/we-have-a-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4081,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}