{"id":2154,"date":"2013-06-25T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2013-06-25T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:50:15","slug":"jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Jack of All Trades, Master of None"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well that’s the old fashioned phrase that came to mind when my new textile\u00a0friend, Suzie Hammond, explained this lovely looking piece of furniture in her Santiago de Chile home last week.\u00a0 She found it in a part of Santiago where\u00a0interesting antiques abound, and restored the timber finish and replaced the upholstery.\u00a0 As her husband Carl is a musician – piano and other signs of that are\u00a0everywhere – I just assumed it was a piano stool with storage – the back was almost lost in some plants so that didn’t register too strongly to make me question\u00a0my impression.<\/p>\n

\"ironing<\/a><\/p>\n

Suzie told me, it certainly is a chair but not especially comfortable to sit in; and the seat does raise up to store something but\u00a0only some papers or some sizes of sheet music; and the flip over back is actually an ironing table – that technically works but it does slope a bit and isn’t very good to use, either !\u00a0\u00a0 Goodness, I wonder who thought up\u00a0that combination\u00a0!!\u00a0and what on earth do you call it – an ironing board with storage seat? or a seat with storage and attached ironing board?\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well that’s the old fashioned phrase that came to mind when my new textile\u00a0friend, Suzie Hammond, explained this lovely looking piece of furniture in her Santiago de Chile home last week.\u00a0 She found it in a part of Santiago where\u00a0interesting antiques abound, and restored the timber finish and replaced the upholstery.\u00a0 As her husband Carl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-yK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}