{"id":1718,"date":"2017-09-21T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:56:38","slug":"the-label-ball-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/the-label-ball-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the Label Ball &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPart one, Creation of the Label Ball, can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1454\">here <\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I entered the label ball into the Sonoma County Fair&#8217;s Amateur &#8211; Adult Home Arts &#8211; Other Paper Arts &#8211; Altered Art (yes, that is the full category) and won a 2nd place ribbon! This also comes with a $4 check, so, after deducting my $2 entry fee, I netted $2 on the effort.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170719_183319169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170719_183319169-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The label reads: This ball is made from the stickers found on supermarket produce. It took our household of 2 people 1\u00bd years to make.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170808_133547171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_20170808_133547171-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a discussion over dinner with an apple grower, he was most insistent that the labels caused no digestive harm to anyone who mistakenly ate them. I posited that if they don&#8217;t decompose in the compost bin, they are surely not digestible. He said, no, they don&#8217;t digest, they pass through harmlessly. Those labels then become part of the city waste processing &#8230; I will follow up with how that works out if I can find my old pals at the treatment plant.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part one, Creation of the Label Ball, can be read here . I entered the label ball into the Sonoma County Fair&#8217;s Amateur &#8211; Adult Home Arts &#8211; Other Paper Arts &#8211; Altered Art (yes, that is the full category) and won a 2nd place ribbon! This also comes with a $4 check, so, after &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/09\/21\/the-label-ball-part-2\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,17],"tags":[94,98,180,549,718,792,961,962,1247,1368,1421,1597,1792],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1718","7":"format-standard","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-science","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-94","12":"post_tag-2nd-place","13":"post_tag-apple","14":"post_tag-digestion","15":"post_tag-fruit","16":"post_tag-grower","17":"post_tag-label-ball","18":"post_tag-labels","19":"post_tag-organic-food","20":"post_tag-produce","21":"post_tag-recycling","22":"post_tag-sonoma-county-fair","23":"post_tag-vegetable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}