{"id":8107,"date":"2009-11-05T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:17:21","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-brass-dachshund-bottle-can-opener-and-paperweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-brass-dachshund-bottle-can-opener-and-paperweight\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Brass Dachshund Bottle and Can Opener & Paperweight"},"content":{"rendered":"\"dachshund-opener_5029\"\n

Only 5″ long and less than 1″ high, this solid brass puppy weighs a ton. For years he sat on my desk atop my most important notes, making me less resentful of going through the stacks of papers he kept in place while I procrastinated going through them every day. One day he fell on the floor and I noticed how strangely shaped his little feet were. Only then, after almost 20 years of being a paper protector, did I realize the dachshund was, in fact, a bottle cap opener on his front legs and a can opener in the rear.<\/p>\n\"dachshund-opener_5034\"\n

Discoveries like this make me very happy. It seems like I have a brand-new object in the house! He’s definitely hand sculpted – be careful around his sharp butt! – but his polished smooth body makes him very fun to handle and easy to operate. I do miss him guarding my papers but he seems much happier in his new and more exciting role.<\/p>\n\"dachshund-opener_5016\"\n\"dachshund-opener_5017\"\n\"dachshund-opener_5035\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only 5″ long and less than 1″ high, this solid brass puppy weighs a ton. For years he sat on my desk atop my most important notes, making me less resentful of going through the stacks of papers he kept in place while I procrastinated going through them every day. One day he fell on … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,385,239,191,181,87,193],"tags":[61,751,753,755,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bar-accessory","category-crafts","category-drink","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-dachshund-bottle-opener","tag-dachshund-can-opener","tag-dachshund-paperweight","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","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=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}