{"id":541,"date":"2008-09-29T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2008-09-29T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T19:37:36","slug":"wall-hanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wall-hanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Hanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wallhanger.jpg\" target=\"photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/wallhanger1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" alt=\"wallhanger.JPG\" class=\"main_img_left\" \/><\/a>This one is for HT, at the request of Ryan. Yes, I do indeed have a sword hanging on the wall next to the door. Just in case. I carried it around yesterday when we went walking, because Manuel recommended I do so. Machete culture here is interesting; it&#8217;s expected that any male who ventures from his house should have one with him. The idea is that if you suddenly need to fix a trail, or clear a fallen tree, or kill a poisonous snake, you are prepared. And to NOT do so, you would be a lazy non-contributing member of society, which just isn&#8217;t done here. I don&#8217;t want to look like I am lazy or not involved in the community, so I guess I will have to start carrying one around. And by the way, no one ever gives you a second look around here if you&#8217;re toting a huge pointy knife. All our second looks are due to being white.<\/p>\n<p>There are several types and shapes of machetes that you see around here; I will do a sketch of the main ones when I get a way to scan it into the computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is for HT, at the request of Ryan. Yes, I do indeed have a sword hanging on the wall next to the door. Just in case. I carried it around yesterday when we went walking, because Manuel recommended I do so. Machete culture here is interesting; it&#8217;s expected that any male who ventures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}