{"id":141,"date":"2012-09-16T16:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tubetime.us\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T23:43:31","slug":"new-table-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"New Table Lamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago at the electronics flea market I picked up a neat bit of brass. I did some internet research and it&#8217;s actually part of a 19th century scientific demonstration instrument, most likely a prism. I found a very similar example at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleaglass.com\/index.php?a=2&#038;b=2525\" title=\"Fleaglass Scientific Antiques\">Fleaglass<\/a>. Theirs sold for quite a bit of money, but I got mine for $5, which is probably about the value of the brass in it.<\/p>\n<p>So I turned it into a table lamp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tubetime\/7993858573\/\" title=\"Lamp by eschlaep, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8451\/7993858573_3f0243eae6.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Lamp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the photo I&#8217;ve installed one of the many vintage-style reproduction light bulbs that are starting to appear. They don&#8217;t really look like a nice carbon filament bulb but I can use this every day and not worry about it burning out.<\/p>\n<p>Now all I need to complete it is to put a shade on it. Ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago at the electronics flea market I picked up a neat bit of brass. I did some internet research and it&#8217;s actually part of a 19th century scientific demonstration instrument, most likely a prism. I found a very similar example at Fleaglass. Theirs sold for quite a bit of money, but I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tubetime.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}