{"id":443,"date":"2010-01-14T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=443"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:07:30","slug":"mindboggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Mindboggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my favorite place to hang out on Ravelry is a little group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/lazy-stupid-and-godless\">LSG<\/a>, a group filled with some fine ladies and gents with hearts of gold.  (And language of profanity, but that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s fun.)  They set a goal to raise $5069 yesterday for Haiti relief, because that&#8217;s how many people are willing to admit they&#8217;re LSGers.  <\/p>\n<p>In 24 hours, they have raised almost $7,000, and donations are still pouring in.  It makes my little heart go pitter-pat.  <\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not the only one who&#8217;s pledged time, or money, or pattern sales.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retroknit.net\">Kristen Rengren<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/retroknit.net\/blog\/?p=494\">complied a list of knitters, yarnies, and designers<\/a> who are pledging their products, as well as a run-down of aid organizations accepting donations. There&#8217;s some great stuff on that list, so you should click through and check it out.  Kristen herself is donating 50% of her sales from two of her terrific patterns this month, and I appreciate that she went ahead and made a list so I could just link you all to it.<\/p>\n<p>I said it in the last post, but I say it again.  Knitters are an amazing community, and I&#8217;m proud to be in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my favorite place to hang out on Ravelry is a little group called LSG, a group filled with some fine ladies and gents with hearts of gold. (And language of profanity, but that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s fun.) They set a goal to raise $5069 yesterday for Haiti relief, because that&#8217;s how many people are willing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mindboggling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-that-are-not-knitting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}