{"id":5785,"date":"2021-02-24T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2021-02-24T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:55:27","slug":"viking-lion-paperweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5785","title":{"rendered":"Viking Lion Paperweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5784\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5784\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210219_142545-1024x1011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d seen this piece a couple times and was unable to ID it.\u00a0 It had been identified as a Gillinder lion, but I was doubtful, as it turned out &#8211; rightfully so.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist it when I saw it at the right price.\u00a0 I got an ID from an Etsy vendor who was selling the exact piece and advertising it as Viking made.\u00a0 When questioned she said that she was the original owner and that it still had the original label on it.<\/p>\n<p>According to her this is a 1970s piece.<a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?attachment_id=5783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5783\" src=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_20210219_142538-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen it names online as &#8216;Sleeping Lion&#8217; but I don&#8217;t know if this is a Viking name.<\/p>\n<p>A great addition to my collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5785\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;d seen this piece a couple times and was unable to ID it.\u00a0 It had been identified as a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/?p=5785\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[710,136,712,137,711],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viking","tag-1970s-glass","tag-lion","tag-paperweight","tag-pressed-glass","tag-sleeping-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysglasses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}