{"id":2084,"date":"2012-08-04T05:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2012-08-07T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:25:04","slug":"great-horrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/great-horrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Great, but Not Horrid Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a long and proud track record of failure at the various knitting O[ymp1c5 and this year may be no different. I&#8217;m made a remarkable amount of progress (for me) while being at the beach and other places that aren&#8217;t particularly conducive to knitterly pursuits.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120804-062337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2088\" title=\"20120804-062337.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120804-062337-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"Too Cold? Dig a Pit!\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120804-062337-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120804-062337-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120804-062337.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7260\/7701259402_ba55ed2d68.jpg\" alt=\"Thing 1--Monkey\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8008\/7701330898_c479354b4f.jpg\" alt=\"Fun Night in the Hamptons\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7134\/7692227552_f019c06cce.jpg\" alt=\"Ravellenic Games--what I can show you so far\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8284\/7692628876_c8a7e24d96.jpg\" alt=\"Have made it to the back of the Layering Shrug by Juju Vail\" \/><br \/>\nAt the same time, I know others who have taken on less insane tasks than I and are already winnahs, but gosh darn it, I really wanted to make this shrug.<br \/>\nAnd the shawl.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Mrs. Hudson Shawl&#8221; for <em>Defarge Does Sherlock<\/em>.<br \/>\nYes, indeedy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2105\" title=\"IMG_7549\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7549.jpg 1879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Knit in the softest, single-ply, mystery yarn I could find in the stash, it&#8217;s a joy to knit up and an easy pattern to memorize (even in my addled state).<br \/>\nPlus, being here at the beach on the Atlantic Coast has given me lots of ideas for socks. Lots and lots.<br \/>\nSo many socks.<br \/>\nSo little time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a long and proud track record of failure at the various knitting O[ymp1c5 and this year may be no different. I&#8217;m made a remarkable amount of progress (for me) while being at the beach and other places that aren&#8217;t particularly conducive to knitterly pursuits. At the same time, I know others who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,293,6,3,195,23],"tags":[324,323,322,326,325],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-designs","category-family","category-knitting","category-patterns","category-travel","tag-beach","tag-hamptons","tag-ravellenic-games","tag-shawl","tag-shrug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}