{"id":4786,"date":"2018-04-27T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:14:20","slug":"paper-knives-everyone-should-have-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/04\/27\/paper-knives-everyone-should-have-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Knives \u2014 Everyone Should Have One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Few things irritate me more than watching most people open their mail, especially when they struggle to loosen the envelope flap, force in a finger and let it rip \u2026 messy, and annoying as hell. Which is exactly why everyone needs a paper knife\u2014designed for the purpose it fits perfectly under the flap, and opens in a clean, crisp line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And a great feeling, too, tearing the knife through paper, perhaps best likened to being the first to get at a new peanut butter jar, thus having the great satisfaction of breaking the foil sealing the top \u2026 a great thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mine, by the way, was not intended as a paper knife\u2014it is an odd luncheon knife in the King\u2019s Pattern, that was once part of an 1890s flatware service by Tiffany &amp; Company. I found it in the bottom of a box of vastly dissimilar material sent to the FRHS years ago through an auction house; no idea how it got there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good to repurpose.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things irritate me more than watching most people open their mail, especially when they struggle to loosen the envelope flap, force in a finger and let it rip \u2026 messy, and annoying as hell. Which is exactly why everyone needs a paper knife\u2014designed for the purpose it fits perfectly under the flap, and opens &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[47,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}