{"id":3,"date":"2005-11-19T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-09-13T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T19:47:28","slug":"why-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/19\/why-a-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Turtle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning to do pottery was a graduation gift to myself.\u00a0 After 7 years of working on a Ph.D. and putting off doing fun stuff, the time had come to express myself in a new way.\u00a0 I had my first lesson in July 2005.\u00a0 I asked Melissa Bridgman, a local potter and friend, if she’d be willing to teach me how to throw.\u00a0 After the first couple of lessons, I knew I’d found a new hobby.\u00a0 I caught on quickly and loved it!<\/p>\n

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Rather than carving my initials or ink stamping the bottom of a piece, I wanted to stamp my pieces.\u00a0 So, I carved a turtle and that is my moniker.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But, why the turtle, you ask?<\/p>\n

I like turtles, I always have.\u00a0 I like to think that we have some things in common – tough on the outside; soft on the inside; and relatively self-sufficient.\u00a0 But more than that, I’m a slow potter. I’m a slow thrower, a slow trimmer, and a slow glazer.<\/div>\n
What’s the rush, anyway?\u00a0 I don’t make pottery to sell pottery.\u00a0 I make pieces that I enjoy making, things that I find interesting or challenging. If people want to buy them, great; if they don’t, great.\u00a0 Not to sound too cliche, but it’s the journey from mound of clay to formed vessle to glazed piece that I enjoy.\u00a0 I like to experiment with shapes and tools and textures.\u00a0 I like to mix glazes and see what comes out.\u00a0 Sometimes it great, sometimes not.\u00a0 And, that’s just fine with me…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learning to do pottery was a graduation gift to myself.\u00a0 After 7 years of working on a Ph.D. and putting off doing fun stuff, the time had come to express myself in a new way.\u00a0 I had my first lesson in July 2005.\u00a0 I asked Melissa Bridgman, a local potter and friend, if she’d be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,5,4],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pottery","tag-pottery","tag-turtle","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turtlepottery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}