{"id":296,"date":"2011-07-29T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-07-29T21:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T21:15:38","slug":"our-shaker-broom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/our-shaker-broom\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Shaker Broom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-72.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-297\" title=\"shapeimage_1-7\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-72-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-72-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-72-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-72.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier this month, Hiram and I visited <a title=\"http:\/\/www.shakervillageky.org\/the_inn_at_shaker_village\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shakervillageky.org\/the_inn_at_shaker_village\/\">Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky<\/a>. We had a wonderful time, though their \u201cform follows function\u201d philosophy and 30,000 perfectly placed wall pegs stirred up <a title=\"12_The_Shakers_and_OCD_Me.html\" href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/Jolene_Philo\/Blog_-_Down_the_Gravel_Road\/Entries\/2011\/7\/12_The_Shakers_and_OCD_Me.html\">OCD tendencies<\/a> that had lain dormant for years. Since the celebration of our anniversary was the reason we lingered in Kentucky after I spoke at a conference in Lexington, we wanted to select the perfect souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>Something special.<br \/>\nSomething really, really special.<br \/>\nYou know, something that would evoke memories of our romantic get away.<br \/>\nLike a&#8230;<br \/>\nLike a&#8230;<br \/>\nhandmade Shaker broom.<\/p>\n<p>Bet that\u2019s the first thing you thought of, huh? Now, I could make a bunch of excuses concerning our choice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The toothless, stereotypical Kentucky craftsman in the broom shop was a relentless salesman who twisted our arms until we caved and bought the broom.<\/li>\n<li>I have been pining for a Shaker broom for decades.<\/li>\n<li>We were heavily influenced by the media blitz around the premier of the last Harry Potter movie.<\/li>\n<li>We have so many knick knacks that a functional souvenir appealed to us.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m too cheap to buy something unless we really need it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ding, ding, ding!The last excuse is the reason we bought the broom,<br \/>\nwhich is why that excuse has a ring of truth,<br \/>\nhits home,<br \/>\nfits us to a tee,<br \/>\nhits the nail on the head,<br \/>\nor whatever idiom you choose to describe us.<\/p>\n<p>I like to say that the last excuse stands on it\u2019s merits. Because that idiom brings to mind our Shaker broom, which the toothless, stereotypical Kentucky craftsman in the broom shop said should stand on its own.<\/p>\n<p>And it does.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes me think the toothless, stereotypical Kentucky craftsman was a better salesman than this gullible, stereotypical midwestern couple made him out to be. We\u2019ll probably think of him every time we use our Shaker broom. And since the guy said the broom would last twenty years or more, we\u2019ll be thinking about him pretty often.<\/p>\n<p>How romantic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Hiram and I visited Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. We had a wonderful time, though their \u201cform follows function\u201d philosophy and 30,000 perfectly placed wall pegs stirred up OCD tendencies that had lain dormant for years. 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