{"id":105,"date":"2026-10-22T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:36:07","slug":"curated-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/?page_id=105","title":{"rendered":"Curated Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An occasional collection of things worth a closer look. Beautiful, useful, unexpected, or simply too interesting to overlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1086\" height=\"1448\" src=\"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vintage-Silver-Spoons-on-Patina-Stone.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500083946140157;width:551px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vintage-Silver-Spoons-on-Patina-Stone.png 1086w, https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vintage-Silver-Spoons-on-Patina-Stone-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vintage-Silver-Spoons-on-Patina-Stone-768x1024-1.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Pleasure of Mismatched Silver<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not everything worth collecting needs to match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These four spoons have found their way into my possession over the years. Where they all came from, I couldn&#8217;t begin to tell you. Different patterns, different sizes, different degrees of wear. Not a matching set among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s precisely what makes them interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s something particularly satisfying about finding a beautiful old spoon tucked into a box of miscellaneous silverware or among the odds and ends at an estate sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A complete service is lovely, of course. But a collection assembled one piece at a time has a character all its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discovery isn&#8217;t always in finding something rare. Sometimes it&#8217;s simply recognizing something worth keeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An occasional collection of things worth a closer look. Beautiful, useful, unexpected, or simply too interesting to overlook. The Pleasure of Mismatched Silver Not everything worth collecting needs to match. These four spoons have found their way into my possession over the years. Where they all came from, I couldn&#8217;t begin to tell you. Different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piperjanie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}