{"id":67221,"date":"2025-07-07T11:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=67221"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:09:15","slug":"i-assumed-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=67221","title":{"rendered":"I assumed it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-6036\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>A Surprising Thrift Store Find<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I walked into a local thrift store with no expectations\u2014just killing time and browsing. Nothing stood out at first, until I saw it: a strange object that looked like a cross between a submarine and a potato.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I picked it up and turned it over.<\/p>\n<p>There, etched on the bottom, were the words:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cAnt. Canella Ferrara, Italy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was ceramic. Handmade. Italian.<\/p>\n<p>The piece had a unique charm\u2014something about its uneven glaze, the odd shape, and the fact that it seemed totally out of place among dusty knickknacks made it feel special.<\/p>\n<p>I flipped over the price tag.<br \/>\n<strong>One dollar.<\/strong><br \/>\nThat was all I needed to see.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, I took it to the register. I wasn\u2019t sure what I\u2019d do with it, but I knew I couldn\u2019t leave it behind.<\/p>\n<p>Once home, I did a quick search on the artist\u2019s name. Turns out, Ant. Canella was a mid-century Italian ceramicist known for quirky, hand-molded designs.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019d found for a buck could be worth far more\u2014both in money and story.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the best treasures are the ones you weren\u2019t looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=67217\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Surprising Thrift Store Find I walked into a local thrift store with no expectations\u2014just killing time and browsing. Nothing stood out at first, until I saw&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67222,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67223,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67221\/revisions\/67223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}