{"id":248,"date":"2010-02-15T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-02-15T22:37:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T06:37:14","slug":"the-kitties-are-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The Kitties are Against Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trucking along on my Knitting Olympics project, but it seems that the kitties really don&#8217;t want me to finish.\u00a0 First, <a href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/11\/im-in\/\">Monkey Kitty took apart a ball of yarn<\/a>, then he chewed on the cable for my circular needle (luckily, not enough to break it), and <em>now<\/em> Bear Kitty is joining the fray &#8211; last night while I was brushing his teeth (I, er, may, in fact, be a crazy cat lady) Bear Kitty bit down on my thumb hard enough to break the nail and draw blood from multiple locations.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fine (and I&#8217;m not going to horrify you with pictures), but one of the wounds is exactly where I rest my thumb against the needle tip, which&#8230;well, it doesn&#8217;t feel great.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m continuing to soldier on, but I don&#8217;t think my progress will be as great as it was before the injury.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to call this part of the &#8220;Fortius&#8221; part of the Olympic motto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trucking along on my Knitting Olympics project, but it seems that the kitties really don&#8217;t want me to finish.\u00a0 First, Monkey Kitty took apart a ball of yarn, then he chewed on the cable for my circular needle (luckily, not enough to break it), and now Bear Kitty is joining the fray &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,23,28],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bear-kitty","tag-knitting-olympics","tag-monkey-kitty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}