{"id":9413,"date":"2021-11-23T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:25:20","slug":"hunting-the-wild-insulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/11\/23\/hunting-the-wild-insulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting the Wild Insulator!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Henry, man… “character” doesn’t begin to describe him, as I’m sure you know. Being a man of somewhat obsessive interests, he’s lately dived head-first into the arcane but charming world of old glass insulators for telephone wires\u2014something, oddly enough, that I used to collect while walking around Galena as a kid. He will gladly<\/em> tell you the entire history of the Hemingray<\/a> company while proudly showing off his collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having noticed a promising-looking abandoned pole near the freeway, on Sunday he persuaded me to drive him up to Pleasanton & scramble around some abandoned tracks. Through the miracle of my 10-foot-long selfie stick, we were even able to wiggle a few loose & collect them! (This is the weirdest game of Pokemon ever. 🙃) I mean, just look at the sheer joy on our man’s face:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Check out some pics in this gallery from our day of hunting<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Henry, man… “character” doesn’t begin to describe him, as I’m sure you know. Being a man of somewhat obsessive interests, he’s lately dived head-first into the arcane but charming world of old glass insulators for telephone wires\u2014something, oddly enough, that I used to collect while walking around Galena as a kid. He will gladly tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insulators","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","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=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}