{"id":128775,"date":"2015-11-12T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-tale-of-the-hes-at-home.html"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:10:36","slug":"the-tale-of-the-hes-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-tale-of-the-hes-at-home.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of the He&#039;s-at-Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating short history of the he&#39;s-at-home, the dildos owned by the wives of Nantucket whalers while their husbands were on their multi-year voyages. It&#39;s interesting both as a bit of history, but also historicity, as the question of whether such things actually existed mixes into the discussion of privacy, loneliness, and the opacity of the past.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117903011098040166012\" oid=\"117903011098040166012\">Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/lithub.com\/there-once-was-a-dildo-in-nantucket'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/wS7ZKNBKU52XDmp9qJkwPDuZccKa3SteYm54p0_lE35HRSy5SiAurliT5PjBIEMTVPvCqcHeL2aOJNX0W_woufnzEeqM_i9C8opBeIY3eQbv_8N11xJ8Rwbm8w=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/lithub.com\/there-once-was-a-dildo-in-nantucket'>There Once Was a Dildo in Nantucket<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe following essay appears in issue 10 of  The Common. On Nantucket, 80-year-old Connie Congdon and I sat in her dim living room looking at the 120-year-old plaster dildo that a mason had found in&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZjMeYS7wLKe'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating short history of the he&#39;s-at-home, the dildos owned by the wives of Nantucket whalers while their husbands were on their multi-year voyages. It&#39;s interesting both as a bit of history, but also historicity, as the question of whether such things actually existed mixes into the discussion of privacy, loneliness, and the opacity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/12\/the-tale-of-the-hes-at-home.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tale of the He&#039;s-at-Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-love-and-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/cant_tell_your.html","url_meta":{"origin":128775,"position":0},"title":"Can&#8217;t tell your swords without a program &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Aug-04 4:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an amazingly difficult (well, it was for me) quiz on Famous Swords From History, Myth, and Literature. 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