{"id":1488,"date":"2015-05-28T00:14:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T00:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me?p=1488"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:24:22","slug":"tibetan-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started wholesaling crystal in gift shows in Canada in the mid-seventies, I would meet characters from all over the world. There were so many interesting stories about their travels and the products they discovered and brought back to sell for a profit. One world traveler spent quite some time in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>He brought back hand woven carpets that were pieces of art, not be used for walking on. I have kept this for many, many years. Recently, I let it join the collection of worldly possessions which I have let go to make way for a smaller footprint.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1486\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tibetan-Carpet-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1487\" src=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tibetan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He also imported beautiful hand painted lacquer boxes. Gold paint and hand lacquered over with their fingers, not a brush or spray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started wholesaling crystal in gift shows in Canada in the mid-seventies, I would meet characters from all over the world. There were so many interesting stories about their travels and the products they discovered and brought back to sell for a profit. One world traveler spent quite some time in Tibet. He brought &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/?p=1488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tibetan Carpet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lambda-years","category-loves-lost","category-whats-happening-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameswmfrank.commemoratemylife.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}