{"id":118,"date":"2002-03-22T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=118"},"modified":"2004-10-19T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T21:06:23","slug":"the-craft-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"the craft of letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/issues\/2002-02-27\/books.html\/1\/\">Typecaster seeks apprentice<\/a>.  (From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlhacker.com\/log.html\">GirlHacker<\/a>, who picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/\">Rebecca&#8217;s pocket<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who used to cast his own bullets; dunno whether he still does.  Sometimes he used wheel-balancing weights discarded (why??) by car mechanics, and sometimes he used an alloy called &#8220;Linotype metal&#8221;.  Since he also runs a press (offset) for his organization&#8217;s leaflets and newsletters, I imagine he took delight in the symbolic junction of two key freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Oh by the way, a tip for leadfounders: it stinks up the room a lot less if you put a layer of cat-litter on top of the metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typecaster seeks apprentice. (From GirlHacker, who picked Rebecca&#8217;s pocket.) I have a friend who used to cast his own bullets; dunno whether he still does. Sometimes he used wheel-balancing weights discarded (why??) by car mechanics, and sometimes he used an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}