{"id":1958,"date":"2011-09-09T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:51:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:51:04","slug":"the-small-object-new-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/09\/09\/the-small-object-new-items\/","title":{"rendered":"The Small Object: New items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4029.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"The Small Object\" alt=\"The Small Object\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4030.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"The Small Object\" alt=\"The Small Object\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4032.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"The Small Object\" alt=\"The Small Object\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4031.jpg\" class=\"image\" title=\"The Small Object\" alt=\"The Small Object\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think I did mention that stamps were one of my obsessions, and no one does stamps better than Sarah of <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmallobject.com\/\">The Small Object<\/a>. She has loads of new stamps, notepads and all sorts of other wonderful things up for sale in her <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmallobject.com\/productsAll.html\">shop<\/a> \u2013\u00a0have a look and I know you&#8217;ll be smitten, just like I am! I found her about 6 years ago and I&#8217;ve been following her updates ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>On another note, I&#8217;d like to share something that&#8217;s been on my mind lately. <\/p>\n<p>On Pikaland, I write about artists and illustrators from all around the globe without prejudice. Up-and-coming talents are featured because I believe they have what it takes to go far, and I don&#8217;t shy away from featuring established artists as well. It&#8217;s very important to me to support them \u2013 no matter if they have already been at it for a very long time, or those who have just begun. Every business requires word of mouth to help spread the news around, and I don&#8217;t take for granted that those who have been around longer might need help from time to time as well. Perhaps it&#8217;s just me, but\u00a0with each passing day I&#8217;m so afraid that they might fade away, and that would absolutely break my heart.<\/p>\n<p>This came about after I went looking for a few artist&#8217;s shops (a lot of them that I knew before I started Pikaland) and was stopped short because a lot of them had closed down. I felt so very sad, and guilty at the same time. I kept asking myself was there something that I could have done to help somehow?<\/p>\n<p>So if you like someone&#8217;s work, perhaps give them a shout out on <em>your<\/em> blog? Never for a moment think that what you do won&#8217;t count, because nothing can be further from the truth. All it takes is just one little step.<\/p>\n<p><em>And with that, have a wonderful weekend folks \u2013 I&#8217;m going to rest, sketch, draw, read and regroup for the weekend. Everyone deserves a little time-out no?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"The Small Object: New items\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2011\/09\/09\/the-small-object-new-items\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Small Object: New items\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31660,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/31660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}