{"id":4,"date":"2013-07-08T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-11-22T03:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T03:18:34","slug":"secrets-for-collecting-antiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/secrets-for-collecting-antiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets for Collecting Antiques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Antique Collector Secrets<\/p>\n<p>Greetings and welcome to my blog. I am a retired (laid-off) power supply operations supervisor who has also been a moviemaker and musician. Over time I have developed a thirst for antique collecting.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I am still in the learning part of the antique identification and collecting curve I enjoy sharing what I have learned in my search for antique keepers, most of the time hidden in plain sight; and I really appreciate hearing from others willing to share their antique and keepsake identification collecting secrets.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever watched an episode of Antique\u2019s Road Show and wondered; how do the experts do that! Take something dug out of a barn, garage, or attic and appraise a piece with such certainty?<\/p>\n<p>I seek the information not necessarily available to those of us without years of experience that sometimes stumbles upon prospective treasures in need of classification and authenticity. That is what I hope to one-day be able to do; to\u00a0 make the most of my visits to antique stores, garage sales, and the occasional flea-market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Antique Collector Secrets Greetings and welcome to my blog. I am a retired (laid-off) power supply operations supervisor who has also been a moviemaker and musician. Over time I have developed a thirst for antique collecting. Even though I am still in the learning part of the antique identification and collecting curve I enjoy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/secrets-for-collecting-antiques\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secrets for Collecting Antiques<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.giftkone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}