{"id":21027,"date":"2010-09-02T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=21027"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:22:16","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-miniature-1970s-wooden-bowling-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-miniature-1970s-wooden-bowling-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; the Day &#8211; Miniature 1970&#8217;s Wooden Bowling Pin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21101\" title=\"bowling-pin-mini_5294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5294.jpg\" alt=\"bowling-pin-mini_5294\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5294.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5294-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>Anyone who knows me knows I love bowling.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not the sport itself but, rather, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%E2%80%93-bowling-bag-coin-purse\/\">the accessories that go along with it<\/a> that make my heart sing.&nbsp; I have no idea what this little mini pin was made for &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing a standalone trophy &#8211; but I found two of them and wish I had more.&nbsp; I used the first one as the end of a banister going up my stairs:<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21107\" title=\"bowling-pin-mini_5306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5306.jpg\" alt=\"bowling-pin-mini_5306\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5306.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5306-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t known what The Fun Club was but I want to be a part of anything   with that name. I also love anything that&#8217;s formally printed up where   someone can&#8217;t resist the urge to embellish it with their own personal   painting touch.&nbsp; The &#8216;Tom&#8217; (or is it &#8216;Glom&#8217;?) and the &#8216;218&#8217; add such an   elegance to the pin.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21099\" title=\"bowling-pin-mini_5296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5296.jpg\" alt=\"bowling-pin-mini_5296\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5296.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5296-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>Nowadays, this little pin&#8217;s only job is to stand around and look pretty. Every now and then I hear it being batted around the house by the cats. I know it&#8217;s the bowling ball that&#8217;s supposed to roll but I hope this pin has some sense of the energy of its big brother bowling pin heritage and can enjoy its journey skidding over the hard wood floor, even though it&#8217;s been hit by a cat and not a ball.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21105\" title=\"bowling-pin-mini_5300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5300.jpg\" alt=\"bowling-pin-mini_5300\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5300.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bowling-pin-mini_5300-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knows me knows I love bowling.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not the sport itself but, rather, the accessories that go along with it that make my heart sing.&nbsp; I have no idea what this little mini pin was made for &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing a standalone trophy &#8211; but I found two of them and wish I &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-miniature-1970s-wooden-bowling-pin\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,411,87,193,585],"tags":[1827,1829,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-21027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-games","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-toy","tag-bowling-pin","tag-bowling-pin-fun-club","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}