{"id":15243,"date":"2021-01-25T22:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2021-01-25T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T03:40:01","slug":"pottery-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/01\/25\/pottery-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottery Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the clay was smooth,<\/p>\n<p>Your<\/p>\n<p>desires<\/p>\n<p>Could seep through<\/p>\n<p>But bowls, plates, and vases<\/p>\n<p>Could not chip<\/p>\n<p>At your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the clay was smooth,<\/p>\n<p>Toothpicks would serve as utensils<\/p>\n<p>For fine details<\/p>\n<p>Knives would easily trace<\/p>\n<p>Straight lines<\/p>\n<p>Spoons would remove excess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the clay was smooth,<\/p>\n<p>You would question<\/p>\n<p>If water seeps out<\/p>\n<p>You would wonder<\/p>\n<p>If by taking the mostly molded cup,<\/p>\n<p>You could stain your white hands.<\/p>\n<p>If by taking a sip,<\/p>\n<p>Do you risk tasting the brown?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If ghosts of past mistakes could fade away,<\/p>\n<p>Rolled into a ball and smoothed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the clay was smooth, Your desires Could seep through But bowls, plates, and vases Could not chip At your thoughts. &nbsp; If the clay was smooth, Toothpicks would serve as utensils For fine details Knives would easily trace Straight lines Spoons would remove excess. &nbsp; If the clay was smooth, You would question If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":14148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1454,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15245,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions\/15245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}