{"id":330,"date":"2010-04-18T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:33:39","slug":"qow-interview-with-owner-of-quince-the-home-furnishing-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/qow-interview-with-owner-of-quince-the-home-furnishing-store\/","title":{"rendered":"QOW: Interview with Owner of Quince the Home Furnishing Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/headshot_wp3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-332\" title=\"Owner Quince Designs\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/headshot_wp3-150x150.png\" alt=\"Owner Quince Designs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owner Quince Designs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week&#8217;s QOW is an exclusive interview with Sharon Manering, owner of Quince the home furnishing store in Charlottesville, VA\u00c2\u00a0and author of the Musings from Quince blog.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Q. What was the inspiration behind using Quince as the name of your\u00c2\u00a0company?<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">A.<em> Quince shrubs are all over my property at home&#8230;.when I\u00c2\u00a0conceptualized the store, I wanted a slightly Asian, clean cut name for the\u00c2\u00a0store&#8230;.plus, the letter &#8220;Q&#8221; is a lot of fun to work with graphically! \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00c2\u00a0glad you like the blog&#8230;I hope more and more people will be finding\u00c2\u00a0me&#8230;&#8230;..thanks so much!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/quincedesigns.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/16\/one-toe-in-the-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">first blog post<\/a>.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">The whole point is to communicate the essence of Quince, and to offer the reader something to nibble on \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit on color, nature, food, lighting, or whatever strikes our (me and Quince) fancy.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Here is her\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/quincedesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> which curiously doesn&#8217;t link to her\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/quincedesigns.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quince of the Week\u00e2\u20ac\u009d honorable mentions:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogger mourns Brooklyn <a href=\"http:\/\/66squarefeet.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/henry-street-quince-rip.html\" target=\"_blank\">quince tree killed in car accident<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Canadian chick into painting <a href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkpaint.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/quince-sprig.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quince sprigs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quinceanera.com\/index.php\/lang-en\/the-party\/planning-the-party\/decorations\/10-decorations\/368-affordable-ideas-for-springtime-quince-decorations\" target=\"_blank\">4 Affordable Ideas for Springtime Quince Decorations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/925maxima.radio.com\/2010\/04\/14\/florida-quince-guide-and-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Quince Guide and Show<\/a> to be held June 13th at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reddevnews.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/15\/component-makers-expand.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Quince Pro<\/a> hosted developer collaboration solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s QOW is an exclusive interview with Sharon Manering, owner of Quince the home furnishing store in Charlottesville, VA\u00c2\u00a0and author of the Musings from Quince blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[72,31],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qow","tag-non-qfl-but-funny","tag-quince-of-the-week"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}