{"id":7818,"date":"2018-08-22T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:25:29","slug":"picking-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2018\/08\/22\/picking-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antiques-loving Hen spent <em>all summer<\/em>\u00a0vibrating with anticipation of visiting Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, Iowa, not too far from Galena. It\u2019s run by Mike &amp; Frank of American Pickers\u2014his favorite show, and beforehand he read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kid-Pickers-Turn-Junk-Treasure\/dp\/1250019303\"><em>Kid Pickers<\/em><\/a>\u2014a birthday gift from Grandma Nack, written by Mike &amp; Galenian Lily Sprengelmeyer.<\/p>\n<p>When our trip finally arrived, we zoomed up from Springfield, then across the river to the shop. Hen was thrilled not only to find a great piece\u2014the taillight (?) from a 1958 Buick, but to bargain with Mike\u2019s childhood friend and shake on a great deal! Given that it was found in Illinois, we like to think that the Buick might\u2019ve been sold by Great Grandpa Liggett, or possibly to Great Grandpa Nack. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards we stopped off for some German food while Hen picked some old railroad shrapnel near a thrillingly active train line. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/BHYbaskECSjnAH3d6\">Check out the gallery here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/BHYbaskECSjnAH3d6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Picadors-4.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IPicadors-4.jpg\" alt=\"Picadors 4\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiques-loving Hen spent all summer\u00a0vibrating with anticipation of visiting Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, Iowa, not too far from Galena. It\u2019s run by Mike &amp; Frank of American Pickers\u2014his favorite show, and beforehand he read Kid Pickers\u2014a birthday gift from Grandma Nack, written by Mike &amp; Galenian Lily Sprengelmeyer. When our trip finally arrived, we zoomed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-g","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}