{"id":2168,"date":"2012-05-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:45:21","slug":"tinker-tailor-cobbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/19\/tinker-tailor-cobbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinker, tailor, cobbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2169\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/19\/tinker-tailor-cobbler\/oldboots\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2169\" title=\"oldboots\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/oldboots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>My grandfather was a cobbler. Is &#8220;cobbler&#8221; a trade even known to people under a certain age? Have you ever tried to find a cobbler&#8211;shoe repair shop&#8211;in the north country? Not easy. Whether you wear leather, rubber or synthetic shoes, most can be repaired when soles grow holes or uppers tear; most will not be repaired. Most broken appliances and tools will not be repaired. We do, indeed, live in a throwaway society. I wonder what my grandfather would do for a living today? He liked to gamble&#8211;perhaps he&#8217;d be a dealer in Vegas, the Hungarian Shoe his casino moniker.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2170\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/19\/tinker-tailor-cobbler\/oldappliances\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2170\" title=\"oldappliances\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/oldappliances.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Well, this cobbler&#8217;s granddaughter was delighted to find an <a href=\"http:\/\/altwire.utne.com\/#\/stories\/437070744745416a786e792b754548344249615637673d3d\/UT.topics.featured\">article<\/a> about a growing movement in Europe to return to the notion of repair vs. throwaway. (Unlike so-called &#8220;third world&#8221; nations where repair is part of the culture, extending the life of stuff vs. throwing it away&#8211;think Cuba and vintage American vehicles.) This new effort addresses everything from clothing repair to appliance and computer and engine repair. They&#8217;ll try their hand at fixing anything.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I really did spend months looking for a local cobbler to repair my boots. I finally gave up. Now, if I need shoes repaired, I bring them to NYC when I visit family.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my question: what repair shops and service people have you used to fix clothing, appliances, tools, machines or equipment? And, what kind of repair services do you wish you could find locally?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather was a cobbler. Is &#8220;cobbler&#8221; a trade even known to people under a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6291,6290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}