{"id":40402,"date":"2015-10-16T06:15:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=40402"},"modified":"2015-10-16T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:38:54","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-why-do-we-throw-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-why-do-we-throw-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why Do We &#8220;Throw&#8221; Pots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/stoneware-apple-baker?source=blog_uk25102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-40406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/25102_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Stoneware Apple Baker | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a>The first time you hear that a potter is \u201cthrowing a pot,\u201d you might get a quizzical look and picture pottery flying across the room, reduced to smithereens in the destructive chaos of a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-german-weddings-common-ghosts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Polterabend.<\/em><\/a> But of course to throw a pot is to create it, not destroy it; the term refers to the process in which a lump of clay takes shape on a potter\u2019s wheel, becoming a beautiful vessel through centrifugal force and the action of the potter\u2019s hands and tools. So why call that \u201cthrowing?\u201d Turns out, the term hails from the Old English word <i>thrawan,<\/i> meaning to twist or turn, a specific and appropriate meaning that\u2019s become obscure in the shift to Modern English. And there\u2019s another twist to this etymological tale: the words \u201cthrow\u201d and \u201cthroe\u201d are both spin-offs of <i>thrawan,<\/i> so the twisting tension you might feel when in the throes of some stressful situation shares a word family with an essential pottery process\u2014a feeling all too familiar to novice potters trying to get things to turn out right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a title=\"Stoneware Apple Baker | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/stoneware-apple-baker?source=blog_uk25102\" target=\"_blank\">Stoneware Apple Baker <\/a>| $25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potters living in glass studios shouldn&#8217;t throw stones, but they may throw stoneware&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":40582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40402"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40613,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40402\/revisions\/40613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}