{"id":2913,"date":"2009-08-07T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/patina\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T02:07:57","slug":"patina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/patina\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Patina&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tetanus.jpg' title='tetanus.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tetanus.thumbnail.jpg' alt='tetanus.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a><strong>Patina<\/strong> is defined as a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal. The term &#8216;patina&#8217; is most often used in discussions about collectible artifacts from the past. In many cases, removing the patina from a collectible is a big no-no.<\/p>\n<p>We once watched an episode of the popular &#8220;Antiques Road Show,&#8221; where a woman brought a nice, shiny Tiffany lamp to be appraised. She polished it up the brass and copper surfaces to a new-looking gleaming lamp. Unfortunately, without the patina, the lamp was worth a small fraction of the antique value.<\/p>\n<p>Patina is not as revered on classic vehicles though. Damsel and I were on our recent vacation when we spotted this old ford truck from the 1950&#8217;s. As she was taking this picture she said &#8220;<strong>I think I need a<\/strong> <strong style='color: red'>tetanus shot<\/strong> <strong>from just looking at that P.O.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patina is defined as a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal. The term &#8216;patina&#8217; is most often used in discussions about collectible&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}