{"id":164,"date":"2012-01-18T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T21:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:43:45","slug":"pit-firing-ocean-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Pit Firing &#8211; Ocean Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/pottery\/djinnpottery-8.jpg\" alt=\"Pit Fire Forms\" \/><br \/>\nTitle: Pit Fired Forms (Set of Three)<br \/>\nSizes: 5&#8243; x 3&#8243;, 5 &#8220;x 4&#8243;, 5&#8243; x 3.5&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/pottery\/5735988824_0ea4241741_b.jpg\" alt=\"5735988824_0ea4241741_b\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/>These forms were fired in an open pit fire on Ocean Beach with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claysite.com\/\">Tom Decker<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmasonceramics.com\/\">Fort Mason Ceramics Guild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fire pits were created by metal artists in San Francisco to preserve the tradition of fires on Ocean Beach.\u00a0 Because this firing was done in a raised pit instead of a sunken pit, the firing goes much faster and has greater thermal shock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pieces are set on a cushion of saw dust and copper and iron for coloring.\u00a0 Then everything is covered with wood and set aflame.\u00a0 As the fire burns down, the pit fired pieces emerge from the fire.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/pottery\/5735448221_afc2757a62_b.jpg\" alt=\"5735448221_afc2757a62_b\" width=\"672\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/pottery\/5735453225_bd06a11f39_b.jpg\" alt=\"5735453225_bd06a11f39_b\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/>It is an exciting and communal way to finish thrown ware.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Pit Fired Forms (Set of Three) Sizes: 5&#8243; x 3&#8243;, 5 &#8220;x 4&#8243;, 5&#8243; x 3.5&#8221; &nbsp; These forms were fired in an open pit fire on Ocean Beach with Tom Decker and the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/?p=164\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-studio-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djinnaya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}