{"id":715,"date":"2019-04-12T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/04\/12\/2019412humans-of-hamden\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:32:15","slug":"2019412humans-of-hamden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/04\/12\/2019412humans-of-hamden\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Hamden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Alessandra Sillo, 33 years old, Hamden\u2019s jewelry queen<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1874.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:133.3511199951172%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9338.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9338.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9338.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_9338.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1874x2499\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"IMG_9338.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5cb0ef1dc83025a1f2825b82\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Owner of William\u2019s Exchange on Whitney Ave. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt is unimaginable how much stuff people accumulate over the course of time. They just have decades of stuff. So some of it I buy on-site and the other half people just come in with, literally pounds of jewelry. I do knickknacks, I have some toys, but I love jewelry especially Victorian jewelry. I got my degree in English, but I really like the Victorian period in literature. Everything was so lavish and embellished with flowers. It was such a beautiful time. I love that jewelry and unfortunately not everything you can buy is Victorian. So I buy it all. It\u2019s like looking at a piece of history. I like recovering it and learning about it and I\u2019m really lucky to have this opportunity. I\u2019ve always done it as a hobby. I have to admit, it\u2019s hard to sell the jewelry because I want to keep all of it, but I sell most of it. It\u2019s so hard to sell antiques right now. People don\u2019t buy them. I\u2019ve been evolving to see what people like and what they don\u2019t like.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">This week\u2019s human of Hamden is Alessandra Sillo, the jewelry queen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-homepage","tag-humans-of-hamden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}