{"id":149,"date":"2005-09-30T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-12-30T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:16:15","slug":"letting-it-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/09\/30\/letting-it-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting it rip!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/book.jpg\" title=\"Book\" alt=\"Book\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebound-designs.com\/catalog\">Rebound Designs<\/a> takes old books and turns them into bags. I&#8217;m not a handbag user, so in a practical sense they are lost on me, but they are really cool. I took a spin past a couple of the op shops the other day, and came home with a few books to experiment with. Maybe I can make a few Christmas presents this year?<\/p>\n<p>Strange how it feels naughty to rip the pages out, even for books I don&#8217;t feel any relationship with.  I found four Reader&#8217;s Digest condensed book volumes with pretty covers that I don&#8217;t feel too bad about remixing. I think they must be in the same series as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebound-designs.com\/catalog\/show\/66.htm\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt I could have done it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebound-designs.com\/catalog\/show\/123.htm\">this one<\/a>. I did get a Dean &amp; Son abridged Pride and Prejudice, with an amusing gaudy cover, but I escape any dilemma because its spine is too thin.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever do that thing of cutting a secret compartment in the pages of a book? I remember it taking a lot of grunt to cut through all the pages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebound Designs takes old books and turns them into bags. I&#8217;m not a handbag user, so in a practical sense they are lost on me, but they are really cool. I took a spin past a couple of the op shops the other day, and came home with a few books to experiment with. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,184,20],"tags":[1359,1388,360],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-craft","category-make","tag-books","tag-craft","tag-recycling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}