{"id":3148,"date":"2009-07-23T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2009-07-23T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:56:19","slug":"cordovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2009\/07\/23\/cordovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cordovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Cordwainer from cordovan from C&oacute;rdoba, where the leather for shoes is made.\">\n<p>The first thing you need to make a shoe is a last.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not quite true:  first you need to outline the sole, like a child with crayon.  That guides you down the shop&#8217;s row of foot-shaped lasts.  Cordovan&#8217;s shop is the top landing in a stairway with a broken roof lock.  His rock maple lasts are pristine.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t go to Cordovan for penny loafers; you go for the shoes in which they&#8217;ll never catch you.  You go for the blessings he sews into them, the names of the Knights of St. Crispin, lip to tongue to feather edge.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you need to make a shoe is a last. That&#8217;s not quite true: first you need to outline the sole, like a child with crayon. That guides you down the shop&#8217;s row of foot-shaped lasts. Cordovan&#8217;s shop is the top landing in a stairway with a broken roof lock. His rock maple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1798],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cordovan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}