{"id":7999,"date":"2016-03-01T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2016-03-01T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:29:00","slug":"tearing-the-horn-off-an-anvil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7999","title":{"rendered":"Tearing the horn off an anvil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-1.jpg\" alt=\"A-anvil-1\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I was a young&#8217;un, a saying I frequently heard (it was particularly said of children) was that a person who was prone to breaking things could &#8220;tear the horn off an anvil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have occasionally used this saying. Often I have been met with a blank look. This caused me to realize that many people are not clear on what an anvil is, or why an anvil has a horn.<\/p>\n<p>At the lawn mower shop last week, I noticed a particularly photogenic anvil. I took a picture of it in case I ever needed to illustrate the saying.<\/p>\n<p>An anvil, of course, is used by smiths and other metal workers for hammering a piece of metal into a particular shape. <\/p>\n<p>As for the machine below, which I also photographed because it was photogenic, I&#8217;m not exactly sure what it is. My guess, though, is that it&#8217;s for crimping metal. Notice the crimped length of stovepipe behind the machine. If my theory is correct, then this machine would let you make a stovepipe out of a piece of sheet metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"855\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-2.jpg\" alt=\"A-anvil-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-anvil-2-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young&#8217;un, a saying I frequently heard (it was particularly said of children) was that a person who was prone to breaking things could &#8220;tear the horn off an anvil.&#8221; Over the years, I have occasionally used this saying. Often I have been met with a blank look. This caused me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=7999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tearing the horn off an anvil?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}