{"id":288,"date":"2012-06-28T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-06-27T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T20:19:55","slug":"brightening-your-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/brightening-your-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightening Your Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee in the morning is such an entrenched tradition in America and elsewhere that even those of us who can\u2019t drink caffeine anymore will still get up and make a pot of decaf for some psychological pick-me-up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what if you have that coffee (caffeinated or not) in a cup like this \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/klio1961\/6849938632\/in\/set-72157629293203849 \" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/brightening-your-morning\/kliomug\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KlioMug.jpg?fit=598%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"598,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KlioMug\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KlioMug.jpg?fit=430%2C575&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-289\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 10px;\" title=\"KlioMug\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KlioMug-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KlioMug.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KlioMug.jpg?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/klio1961\/\">Eleni Tsaliki<\/a> has a thing for bring colors and fun imagery. Using Angeli Del Rosario\u2019s suggestions for renewing old items from the \u201cPolymer to the Rescue\u201d article in our present issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/index.php\">The Polymer Arts magazine<\/a>,\u00a0 you could help save the earth and brighten your morning by repairing old mugs with cheery polymer additions.<\/p>\n<p>Eleni has a whole series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/klio1961\/sets\/72157629293203849\/\">pick me up mugs<\/a> on her Flickr page along with other things to brighten up your Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee in the morning is such an entrenched tradition in America and elsewhere that even those of us who can\u2019t drink caffeine anymore will still get up and make a pot of decaf for some psychological pick-me-up. Now, what if you have that coffee (caffeinated or not) in a cup like this \u2026 &nbsp; Eleni&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,105,17,106,12,11,104,16],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-coffee-mugs","tag-design","tag-eleni-tsaliki","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-recycle","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-4E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}