{"id":6526,"date":"2017-04-06T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2017-04-06T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:55:06","slug":"sharp-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6526","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was splitting wood the other day with my second favorite ax.  That ax belonged to my wife&#8217;s grandfather, Glen Buckmaster. I like to split wood and remember him. I only knew him for a few years, but he was a fine man. <\/p>\n<p>The ax was bouncing back at me, so I figured it needed sharpened.  I hit it with the grinder to reshape the bevel and then honed it with a file.  The wood exploded apart when I hit it with the sharpened ax. I clearly need to sharpen my tools more often.<\/p>\n<p>And this is a good excuse to quote one of my favorite poems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Except as a fellow handled an ax,<br \/>\nThey had no way of knowing a fool.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Robert Frost in the poem &#8220;Two Tramps in Mud Time&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was splitting wood the other day with my second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truth-and-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}