{"id":60,"date":"2026-11-07T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/?p=60"},"modified":"2026-11-07T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:33:09","slug":"why-no-two-pieces-are-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Why No Two Pieces Are Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every piece in the shop begins as a lump of clay on the wheel. It is shaped by hand, and however carefully that is done, each one comes out a little different \u2014 a slightly wider lip, a handle at its own angle, a curve that is all its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glaze adds another layer of that. It moves in the kiln, pooling in some places and breaking thin over edges in others, so the same glaze can look soft on one mug and bold on the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those small differences are not flaws. They are the marks of something made by hand, and they are why each piece is one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every piece starts on the wheel by hand, and that is exactly why no two come out the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prairiepottery.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}