{"id":2317,"date":"2025-01-11T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2025-01-11T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:15:18","slug":"retirement-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"Retirement, so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We closed my commercial pottery business at the end of 2024, and to be honest, not much has changed.\u00a0 I am still making pots regularly &#8211; more large pieces and fewer mugs and bowls.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working at a somewhat slower pace.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with the new work, or even how much of it will make it through the whole glazing and firing cycle.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m having fun!<\/p>\n<p>We ended 2024 with a big clearance sale, so I have very little finished work on hand here.\u00a0 It was great to send so many pots out into the world.\u00a0 But I still have pots for sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/noonwhistlepottery.com\/\">Noon Whistle Pottery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crozetartisandepot.com\/\">Crozet Artisans Depot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cvillearts.org\/\">Cville Arts<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldersongallery.com\/\">Alderson Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no longer teaching classes and workshops, but still have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachinart.com\/take-your-throwing-to-the-next-level.html\">online class<\/a> through TeachinArt.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my new pots.\u00a0 The footed bowls (planters?) are a direct steal from my friend Sylvia Dales, the lamp is a familiar form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2320\" src=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6355-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2321\" src=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6349-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We closed my commercial pottery business at the end of 2024, and to be honest, not much has changed.\u00a0 I am still making pots regularly &#8211; more large pieces and fewer mugs and bowls.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working at a somewhat slower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=2317\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}