{"id":683,"date":"2006-08-15T23:53:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/this_blogger_ha"},"modified":"2006-08-15T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T03:53:11","slug":"this_blogger_ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"This blogger has a way with hot metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/sean_pecor_8122006_15345_pm_558x561.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=558,height=561,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Sean_pecor_8122006_15345_pm_558x561\" title=\"Sean_pecor_8122006_15345_pm_558x561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/sean_pecor_8122006_15345_pm_558x561.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; float: right;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSean Pecor, horse farmer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pecorfamily.com\/\">blogger<\/a> and Internet entrepreneur from Boone&#8217;s Mill, VA, is learning blacksmithing at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Sean was the winner of a design contest sponsored by the Jacksonville Center and won a scholarship for any course or workshop that was being offered.<\/p>\n<p>I had lost track of Sean since the contest, and was pleasantly surprised to see him firing up a forge and forming hot metal on an anvil like he had been doing it all his life.<\/p>\n<p>He exhibits the same easy confidence in the Blacksmith shop as he does on his weblog. He is taking the Introduction to Blacksmithing course being taught by third-generation blacksmith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/2006\/05\/this_week_in_fl.html\">Jessie Ward<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/sean_pecor_8122006_14450_pm_503x566.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=503,height=566,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"337\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Sean_pecor_8122006_14450_pm_503x566\" title=\"Sean_pecor_8122006_14450_pm_503x566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/sean_pecor_8122006_14450_pm_503x566.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe description of the course gives you some idea of the material covered.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enjoy the thrill of making things with iron.&nbsp; This three day introductory course is designed to cover blacksmithing basics, make something you&#8217;ve always wanted to make or make things you didn&#8217;t realize were possible.&nbsp; No previous blacksmithing experience is required.&nbsp; All levels welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This course is taught on three successive Saturdays, so I will follow up next week to see what Sean is going to do next.<\/p>\n<p>I have been taking pictures of all of the courses we offer, and I think blacksmithing is one of the first I am going to do myself. I don&#8217;t think I will match Sean&#8217;s stylish appearance, but I will enjoy bashing hot iron, I am sure of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Pecor, horse farmer, blogger and Internet entrepreneur from Boone&#8217;s Mill, VA, is learning blacksmithing at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, Virginia. Sean was the winner of a design contest sponsored by the Jacksonville Center and won &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1833],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}