{"id":361,"date":"2008-05-25T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/a-reminder\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T21:32:19","slug":"a-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/a-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"A reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/2522494146\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3011\/2522494146_b4bbf21186_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/2522494146\/\">Made by Hand<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/big_dadoo\/\">Big Dadoo<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was cutting he grass yesterday and the lawnmower ran out of gas. No problem, I&#8217;ve got a gas can in the shed. The picture is my gas can for the lawnmower. But, it&#8217;s not your average gas can. It&#8217;s not a hunk of red plastic from Canadian Tire, made in China by a machine or some unknown person.<\/p>\n<p>This gas can was made by my Grandpa Stewart. I have no idea how old it it, but it&#8217;s been around as long as I can remember. Add the parts were made by Grandpa by hand. Sheet metal rolled and formed by hand, soldered together by hand. The wood handle turned on a lathe. The knurled brass caps, turned on a metal lathe. And here it is, in my shed, still working just fine after 50+ year. I doubt that any plastic gas can will stand this test of time. Oh, it will still be around, in a land fill somewhere, because that plastic is never going away, but I&#8217;ll bet it won&#8217;t be in use.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing the plastic gas can won&#8217;t do is bring back memories. Ever time I touch this gas can I remember my Dad and my Grandpa and what great men they were and what a great legacy they left me and a wonderful deposit they made in my life. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the gas can.<br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made by HandOriginally uploaded by Big Dadoo I was cutting he grass yesterday and the lawnmower ran out of gas. No problem, I&#8217;ve got a gas can in the shed. The picture is my gas can for the lawnmower. But, it&#8217;s not your average gas can. It&#8217;s not a hunk of red plastic from Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}