{"id":7717,"date":"2025-06-24T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2025-07-29T05:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:24:25","slug":"still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Still here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, I’m still here<\/strong>. The last post was over two years ago, so perhaps you wonder what has been going on with your devoted author.<\/p>\n

I will tell you but in the next post. Here, I want to go way back and tell you first about when I began woodworking. I mean way<\/em> back. Enough that I can truly say that I’ve been woodworking for about 62 years.<\/p>\n

In the basement of the family house, prior to Palm Sunday, I built a little Catholic memorial and then gave it to my mother and father. I did not see it again until 59 years later when I discovered it shortly after my mom died (at 102; dad at 91).<\/p>\n

She had saved the woodwork in her small number of collectibles.<\/p>\n

Woodworking. It mattered then, and it still does.<\/p>\n

And this is how and why I work a saw, chisel, and plane. Because what I do matters.<\/p>\n

Go ahead, dear readers, pick up your tools and make things.<\/p>\n

It matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, I’m back online. I will tell you in the next post what has been going on. And after that, we will do more woodworking stuff. Lots to come<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I’m still here. The last post was over two years ago, so perhaps you wonder what has been going on with your devoted author. I will tell you but in the next post. Here, I want to go way back and tell you first about when I began woodworking. I mean way back. Enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}