{"id":22604,"date":"2012-08-02T07:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=22604"},"modified":"2012-08-02T07:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:56:28","slug":"what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, for another game of &#8216;What is it?&#8217; Do you know? Can you guess? Hint: it is not a torture device, nor a strange sort of holder for a beverage. It was designed by Carl Mertens, who has designed all manner of steel accessories, and measures approximately 5 x 3 inches. Do you know now? Answer below.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a candle snuffer, or, to be more precise, a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.cooperhewitt.org\/index\/page\/product\/product_id\/3877\/product_name\/Candle+Extinguisher\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">candle <em>extinguisher<\/em><\/a>. A snuffer\/extinguisher &#8220;cools the wick as it douses the flame, preventing smoke from developing and ensuring no wax is spilled.&#8221; It&#8217;s certainly much different from the old fashioned versions that are less than desirable, and you would have the added bonus of correcting anyone that called it a mere candle snuffer: &#8216;It&#8217;s a candle <em>extinguisher<\/em>, dear.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Material: Steel<br \/>\nDimensions: 4.7&#8243; x 2.8&#8243;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, for another game of &#8216;What is it?&#8217; Do you know? Can you guess? Hint: it is not a torture device, nor a strange sort of holder for a beverage. It was designed by Carl Mertens, who has designed all manner of steel accessories, and measures approximately 5 x 3 inches. Do you know now? [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,357,122],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/candle-snuffer.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}