{"id":66,"date":"2009-01-16T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-02-13T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:26:52","slug":"20090116_2369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Floor tiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3201691368\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3464\/3201691368_8c7bc619e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3201691368\/\">20090116_2369<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A visit to the factory \u2026.<\/p>\n<p>A good many of our guests remark upon our floor tiles which are very beautiful but also hard wearing, and, best of all, don\u2019t show the dirt \u2013 a priceless asset in the damp, mud-producing winter!<br \/>\nThey\u2019re made in southern Portugal, principally around the Algarvian village of Santa Catarina and a few days ago we had to go down there to buy some more for a new floor we\u2019re making this winter, so I thought I\u2019d make a small \u201cphoto diary\u201d to show everyone how and where they\u2019re made.<br \/>\nThe \u201cfactories\u201d are usually small family affairs, employing approx 5 people each, and are situated right on top of the raw material, a band of red clay that stretches the length of the Algarve, but which is of a particularly fine quality around Santa Catarina itself, and this village gives its name to the tiles.<\/p>\n<p>First of all the raw, red clay is dug out of the ground during the summer and stored for the year\u2019s work ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20090116_2369, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. A visit to the factory \u2026. A good many of our guests remark upon our floor tiles which are very beautiful but also hard wearing, and, best of all, don\u2019t show the dirt \u2013 a priceless asset in the damp, mud-producing winter! They\u2019re made in southern Portugal, principally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quinta","tag-floor-tiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}