{"id":34331,"date":"2025-09-15T11:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:52:31","slug":"when-does-an-object-not-rise-to-personal-relic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/15\/when-does-an-object-not-rise-to-personal-relic\/","title":{"rendered":"When Does An Object Not Rise To Personal Relic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, when my beautiful wife was moving things to do the bathroom floor, she dropped a porcelain cat-shaped toilet brush holder that I had once belonged to my aunt.<\/p>\n

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To be honest, I’m not sure whether I got it when my aunt passed away twenty-some years ago, or if I got it from my sainted mother when she passed away ten-something years ago after she received it from my aunt, but we’d had it for a while.<\/p>\n

I put it on my workbench with the thought of gluing it, but it’s rather fine (that is, thin-walled), and, meh, it’s just a toilet bowl brush holder. So I discarded it (and Internet sleuths will discover that it’s a rare piece of sculpture worth thousands, but too late now).<\/p>\n

Which is funny, because I received a couple of cat decorations, little statues about 12″ or 18″ tall, from my other aunt who died in 2019. I placed them beside my fireplace upstairs, and the boys were younger then, and although I told them not to throw balls in the house, one of them managed to break one of them. And I glued it back together and moved the statues downstairs, where the boys roughhoused less.<\/p>\n

Why did I save one but not the other? I don’t know; one was a piece of sculpture, and one was a piece of utility? Or maybe I’m just arbitrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, when my beautiful wife was moving things to do the bathroom floor, she dropped a porcelain cat-shaped toilet brush holder that I had once belonged to my aunt. To be honest, I’m not sure whether I got it when my aunt passed away twenty-some years ago, or if I got it from my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-relics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34332,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34331\/revisions\/34332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}