{"id":261,"date":"2026-03-13T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/?p=261"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:42:18","slug":"aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5358-edited.jpg\" alt=\"A handmade wind chime hanging outside in front of a blue-painted building. The top is a large oval metal serving tray, darkened and patinated with age, with a hole corroded through its center. Suspended from it by white string are various old utensils \u2014 spoons, forks, and knives in different sizes \u2014 each heavily rusted or tarnished to different shades of brown, black, and dark grey. A orange fabric item is partially visible on the left.\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5358-edited.jpg 800w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5358-edited-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5358-edited-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_5358-edited-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I liked about this was that it&#8217;s technically junk \u2014 old rusted spoons, bent forks, a tray with a hole eaten through it \u2014 but someone saw something worth making in all of it. I wanted to shoot it straight on so you could really see the wear on each piece, the different stages of rust and tarnish, the way no two utensils aged the same way. The fact that it&#8217;s a wind chime felt important too; something this worn out is still functional, still making noise, still hanging there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I liked about this was that it&#8217;s technically junk \u2014 old rusted spoons, bent forks, a tray with a hole eaten through it \u2014 but someone saw something worth making in all of it. I wanted to shoot it straight on so you could really see the wear on each piece, the different stages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KaylaRo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}