{"id":34,"date":"2026-05-20T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:54:12","slug":"on-finding-the-opaline-vase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"On finding the opaline vase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The estate sale was advertised on a piece of cardboard, taped to a lamppost in Bonnieux, written in marker. <em>SAMEDI 9H \u2014 MAISON DE FAMILLE.<\/em> Nothing more.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I arrived at eight forty-five. The garden was full of folded chairs and women with empty totes. I walked through every room twice before I found the vase, in a back bedroom, on a shelf with three of its lesser cousins. It was the only one with that very specific milky-blue cast you can&#8217;t fake.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The owner&#8217;s daughter said her mother bought it on her honeymoon in Murano in 1962 and never put a single flower in it. Sixty years on a shelf. I asked if she was sure she wanted to sell it. She said her mother had hated it, actually \u2014 said it was too pretty, too precious, the wrong shape for any flower she ever liked. So it sat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estate sale in Bonnieux, advertised on cardboard. The vase nobody had ever put a flower in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boltsnow.vagabond.andreidraganescu.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}