{"id":524,"date":"2010-05-25T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=524"},"modified":"2010-05-25T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T02:36:54","slug":"unexpected-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes knitting on the train means you get into interesting conversations.  Last night the conductor paused as she was collecting tickets, leaned over, and asked me, &#8220;Is that a sock?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was, so I let her get a look, and she spent a good five minutes exclaiming and asking questions while I explained how it worked.  She wasn&#8217;t a knitter, but she must know knitters, because she knew all the right questions to ask.  Then she wanted to know if I had made up the design, so I explained that no, but a friend of mine had.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s lovely!  You should tell her!&#8221;  And off the conductor went, clicking tickets on her way through the car.<\/p>\n<p>Conversations like that are a little burst of energy to get a sock done:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/4640884784\/\" title=\"Revival Sock, halfway done! by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4640884784_fd9d1950dc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Revival Sock, halfway done!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then the grill got fired up to make hamburgers and I got distracted but how surprisingly pretty sunlight in smoke can be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/4640275665\/\" title=\"Sunbeams by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4640275665_dbd58c5152.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Sunbeams\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you blame me? No, you cannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes knitting on the train means you get into interesting conversations. Last night the conductor paused as she was collecting tickets, leaned over, and asked me, &#8220;Is that a sock?&#8221; It was, so I let her get a look, and she spent a good five minutes exclaiming and asking questions while I explained how it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unexpected Interlude&#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":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-wips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}