{"id":85,"date":"2013-04-25T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2014-08-31T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T02:10:33","slug":"materials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Materials: the clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-40273594-1', 'auto');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: 300;\">You learn a new respect for your materials when you engage in this process and a new humbleness for the\u00a0generosity of the Earth who provides these materials freely.\u00a0 It is traditional to make an offering (corn pollen or corn meal) to thank the Earth for her kindness before beginning the gathering, to be careful in digging, to take only what you need and will use, to have as little impact on the land as possible, and to make a thanking offering again before leaving.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;112&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>Like all pottery, clay is central to the process.\u00a0 But here we began by digging our own clay, cleaning it, grinding volcanic rock to temper it.\u00a0 The volcanic rock, it goes without saying, must also be gathered.\u00a0 The clay in New Mexico is often dry and must be dug out of the ground &#8230; with a pick axe.\u00a0 Not easy work.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=38 \">Return to Pueblo Pottery<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=168\">Go to the next page<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=85\">Return to the top of the page<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You learn a new respect for your materials when you engage in this process and a new humbleness for the\u00a0generosity of the Earth who provides these materials freely.\u00a0 It is traditional to make an offering (corn pollen or corn meal) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/384"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}