{"id":858,"date":"2023-07-03T13:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T13:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2023-07-04T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:59:41","slug":"a-glass-a-glass-my-kingdom-for-a-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"A glass, a glass, my kingdom for a glass \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glasses come in all shapes and sizes, and vintage glasses are no different. The French, Italian, German style of glasses are all different but all equally as beautiful, as are our own in the UK. Glasses have evolved over the centuries and if you go charity shop hunting, don\u2019t overlook the small stumpy, clear odd shaped wine glasses, that lurk at the back of a shelf &#8211; these could be the ones worth good money. The old old glasses, from the 17th and 18th centuries, that have somehow survived to tell the tale. I have harped on about glassware more than once, I know , but I just love the myriad of styles and colours that you can buy for not a lot of money. My particular favourite is Victorian cranberry glass that when it catches the light .. especially on a Christmas table &#8211; well it just glows. I love it. Some glasses are so dainty, they feel like they\u2019d smash with a sneeze but somehow they\u2019ve survived for decades. Glasses got gaudier as we headed into the 20th century. Patterns, shapes, funky colours \u2026 1950\u2019s Bambi champagne glasses &#8211; oh the glamour darlink! I remember my aunt had glasses with big yellow spots on when I went to visit in the late 60\u2019s .. I smile when I think about them. Oh the memories a glass can evoke. Modern plain colourless glass &#8211; is it going to illicit anything when you\u2019re older, in the old memory bank? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m going over old ground I know, but it\u2019s so important that we preserve our heritage and keep using all this lovely old stuff, that still serves  a purpose, in our throwaway society. I\u2019ll raise a glass to that, any day of the week! &#x1f99a;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize,to_auto,s_webp:avif/thepeacockemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_1407-768x1024.jpg class=\"wp-image-856\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize,to_auto,s_webp:avif/thepeacockemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_1411-768x1024.jpg class=\"wp-image-857\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasses come in all shapes and sizes, and vintage glasses are no different. The French, Italian, German style of glasses are all different but all equally as beautiful, as are our own in the UK. Glasses have evolved over the centuries and if you go charity shop hunting, don\u2019t overlook the small stumpy, clear odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_1466.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeacockemporium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}