{"id":617,"date":"2010-12-24T02:52:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-12-24T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:52:58","slug":"old-mr-kringle-hes-soon-gonna-jingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=617","title":{"rendered":"Old Mr Kringle, he&#8217;s soon gonna jingle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have had to prioritize a great deal this month.  Basically?  Christmas knitting won over everything else.  (Well, that and baking.  There was a lot of baking, too.)<\/p>\n<p>I also purchased gifts, like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/5287516840\/\" title=\"Meeting Ina Garten by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5203\/5287516840_9f600f2ab9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Meeting Ina Garten\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That would be Traveling Sock, waiting with me on line to get Ina Garten to autograph her new cookbook for my Mom.  (It&#8217;s not a surprise, so I can talk about it; Mom knows it&#8217;s under the tree, I&#8217;m just making her wait until Saturday morning to open it.) I told Ina that my Mom and I love that she cooks like a regular Joe, measuring straight into the bowl with her carton of milk out on the counter, and she laughed and thanked me, and then Traveling Sock and I went on our way.<\/p>\n<p>That was two weeks ago, and I have only just finished one sock, because there&#8217;s been so much else to get done.  Here, I&#8217;ll brag a little, because I&#8217;m rather proud of these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/5287495078\/\" title=\"Becky's Mittens by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5048\/5287495078_5e713f54aa.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Becky's Mittens\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are part of my sister&#8217;s present, and they took forever, and there&#8217;s a story to them.  Once she&#8217;s had a chance to open them I&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime&#8230; all the cookies have been baked.  The lights are all aglow.  Presents are (almost all) wrapped, and the tree is trimmed and waiting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/5287493700\/\" title=\"Tree! by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5088\/5287493700_9e4bf8abed.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tree!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re celebrating this weekend, I wish you a very Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have had to prioritize a great deal this month. Basically? Christmas knitting won over everything else. (Well, that and baking. There was a lot of baking, too.) I also purchased gifts, like this one: That would be Traveling Sock, waiting with me on line to get Ina Garten to autograph her new cookbook &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Mr Kringle, he&#8217;s soon gonna jingle&#8230;&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fos","category-traveling-sock"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}