{"id":691,"date":"2013-07-07T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=691"},"modified":"2013-07-07T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:45:42","slug":"tour-de-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my holiday visiting Melissa, who is doing the Tour de Fleece and spent every night spinning while I indoctrinated her in the wonder that is Orphan Black.  I do not own a spinning wheel, and I&#8217;m not much of a spinner, so I&#8217;m calling myself a spectator:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/9233014881\/\" title=\"Untitled by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2814\/9233014881_2299c94902.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I did not spin that all at once.  I am trying to spin more, because it&#8217;s nice to be able to make one&#8217;s own yarn, and also getting to spin with a Golding is an absolute treat, I must admit.<\/p>\n<p>I did! however, complete the knitting on this lovely item:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/9235968184\/\" title=\"Untitled by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5449\/9235968184_524612004c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first of what will be many, many sweaters for Peanut, my future niece or nephew.  I must pick out buttons and do the finishing and blocking, but I&#8217;m so excited by how it&#8217;s come out.  I think I&#8217;ll start a Baby Surprise Jacket next&#8230;so many adorable things to make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent my holiday visiting Melissa, who is doing the Tour de Fleece and spent every night spinning while I indoctrinated her in the wonder that is Orphan Black. I do not own a spinning wheel, and I&#8217;m not much of a spinner, so I&#8217;m calling myself a spectator: (I did not spin that all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tour de Spectator&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}