{"id":2655,"date":"2009-10-24T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2018-10-14T03:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T22:23:33","slug":"domestic-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/domestic-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Goddess&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2659\" title=\"Domestic_Goddess\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Domestic_Goddess.jpg\" alt=\"Domestic_Goddess\" width=\"437\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2660\" title=\"Domestic_Goddess_evg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Domestic_Goddess_evg.jpg\" alt=\"Domestic_Goddess_evg\" width=\"437\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More people have expressed interest in the quirky assemblage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1780\" target=\"_blank\">weathervanes<\/a> that I\u2019ve been making\u2014so I thought I\u2019d post the latest. <em>Domestic Goddess<\/em> (a tongue-in-cheek composition dedicated to Ev\u2019s alleged culinary prowess) now graces the top of a wooden pole in front of her <a href=\"http:\/\/whatclayart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ceramics studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This piece invokes the heroic narrative of \u201charnessing the domestic beast\u201d and comprises a large chromed-copper kettle, an old wooden kitchen shelf shaped as a wing (adorned with sheet copper, spoons, and knives), metal shoe-trees as secondary wings, serving forks as tail feathers, a railing banister with a wood-fired ceramic arrowhead as a directional pointer, a ceramic dragon-head (chained to the kettle with ball-chain from vertical blinds with a brass lock)\u2014all topped with a found copper and brass angel figurine (perhaps a Christmas ornament from a former time) brandishing a brass trident. Bearings from an old roller-skate wheel provide friction-free swiveling action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba More people have expressed interest in the quirky assemblage weathervanes that I\u2019ve been making\u2014so I thought I\u2019d post the latest. Domestic Goddess (a tongue-in-cheek composition dedicated to Ev\u2019s alleged culinary prowess) now graces the top of a wooden pole in front of her ceramics studio. This piece invokes the heroic narrative of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,8,15,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16181,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/16181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}