{"id":91,"date":"2006-11-14T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2006-11-14T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T15:32:00","slug":"mystery-matchbox-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/mystery-matchbox-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Matchbox Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/1600\/2006-11-14%20matchbox%20book1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: none; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/320\/2006-11-14%20matchbox%20book1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s been more than 10 years since I participated in my first Internet book swap, and this book is one of the first swap books I ever received. I had some idea that the colophon was a folded piece of paper in one of the matchbox drawers, but if that&#8217;s the case, the colophon has disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>So, anybody recognize this? Circa 1996 or so.<\/p>\n<p>The matchboxes were covered and then seem to be glued together in a log-cabin-quilt sort of pattern, and the base and top and book cover are, I believe, paper-covered foamcore. The paper is not lightweight, and the covering of the matchboxes with that paper made it a much sturdier structure than would have been the case if the matchboxes were left uncovered. I&#8217;ve always liked this book. My one critique of it is that the accordion text paper could be a little heavier &#8230; maybe. It&#8217;s got great little drawer pulls, which were originally rectangular beads before they became drawer pulls. It&#8217;s a great little book.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/1600\/2006-11-14%20matchbox%20book2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/207\/1451\/320\/2006-11-14%20matchbox%20book2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been more than 10 years since I participated in my first Internet book swap, and this book is one of the first swap books I ever received. I had some idea that the colophon was a folded piece of paper in one of the matchbox drawers, but if that&#8217;s the case, the colophon has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/mystery-matchbox-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mystery Matchbox Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-1t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}