{"id":4495,"date":"2009-07-16T12:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2009-07-16T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:17:57","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-toothpick-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-toothpick-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; Toothpick Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4497\" title=\"Toothpick-Charlie_9413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Toothpick-Charlie_9413.jpg\" alt=\"Toothpick-Charlie_9413\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Toothpick-Charlie_9413.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Toothpick-Charlie_9413-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>Throughout the 1960&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, toothpick holders were one of the state&nbsp;souvenir&nbsp;items of choice. &nbsp;Though Toothpick Charlie is devoid of any markings other than his name, &nbsp;identical trinkets were churned out and stamped with state names as frequently as &nbsp;shoe shaped coin purses and carved wooden jewelry boxes. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie is made out of a tree limb and holds about 30 toothpicks when his mouth is full. He&#8217;s sat at my kitchen table with me for as long as I can remember.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4501\" title=\"toothpick-charlie_9409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_9409.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick-charlie_9409\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_9409.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_9409-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4503\" title=\"toothpick-charlie_2673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_2673.jpg\" alt=\"toothpick-charlie_2673\" width=\"328\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_2673.jpg 328w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/toothpick-charlie_2673-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the 1960&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, toothpick holders were one of the state&nbsp;souvenir&nbsp;items of choice. &nbsp;Though Toothpick Charlie is devoid of any markings other than his name, &nbsp;identical trinkets were churned out and stamped with state names as frequently as &nbsp;shoe shaped coin purses and carved wooden jewelry boxes. &nbsp; Charlie is made out of a &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-toothpick-charlie\/\">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":[317,181,87,193,167,81],"tags":[61,3232,3245,447],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-products","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-toothpick-charlie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","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=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}