{"id":121,"date":"2020-07-30T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2020-07-30T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:08:34","slug":"lapidary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/lapidary\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapidary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our staff, artisans, and members are a talented lot. A handful of them have taken to specializing in artistic creations involving gems, minerals, rocks, and stones. Much of this work falls within the realm of &#8220;Lapidary&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our founder, Thomas Baurley, began learning silver and goldsmiths, lapidary, tumbling, and jewelry making from a very early age enhancing his rock collecting skills. From 1978 to 1990 he had a diamond rock saw, grinder, polisher, tumbler, and various other tools he used to make jewelry, cabochons, boa ties, and rings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soon we will be posting pictures of some of his old works and collections as well as from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art of the Earth:<br>Examples of\u00a0 Lapidary Artwork<br>by Thomas Baurley:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pdiamondbolatie362.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pdiamondbolatie362.jpg 362w, https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pdiamondbolatie362-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><figcaption>Bola Tie with Pecos Valley Diamonds.  Lapidary, of Roadrunner &#8211; NM Symbol. 1982, Roswell, New Mexico. Thomas Baurley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our staff, artisans, and members are a talented lot. A handful of them have taken to specializing in artistic creations involving gems, minerals, rocks, and stones. Much of this work falls within the realm of &#8220;Lapidary&#8221;. Our founder, Thomas Baurley, began learning silver and goldsmiths, lapidary, tumbling, and jewelry making from a very early age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/lapidary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lapidary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/artwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}