{"id":600,"date":"2011-01-17T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2011-01-17T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T21:50:50","slug":"i-have-the-best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"I Have The Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a chance to catch up with a couple of my very best friends and exchange Xmas gifts with them.\u00a0 I think I got the better part of that exchange, because I walked away with this:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-601\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/i-have-the-best-friends\/p1020389\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-601\" title=\"P1020389\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P1020389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What <em>is<\/em> it?&#8221; I can hear you asking, in awed and shushed tones.\u00a0 That, my friends, is Mountain Colors sock yarn.\u00a0 And it is glorious.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-603\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/i-have-the-best-friends\/p1020394\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" title=\"P1020394\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P1020394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The colors couldn&#8217;t be any better if they were dyed with me in mind, and, frankly, I&#8217;m not entirely sure the people at Mountain Colors <em>haven&#8217;t<\/em> been spying on me for months in order to learn my preferences.\u00a0 The greens are lush and glowing, the blues pop, the purples add a nice richness and deep tone.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m in love.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-602\" href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/17\/i-have-the-best-friends\/p1020393\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-602\" title=\"P1020393\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/P1020393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only problem is figuring out what to make out of it.\u00a0 It seems almost sacrilegious to make socks and walk all over such prettiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a chance to catch up with a couple of my very best friends and exchange Xmas gifts with them.\u00a0 I think I got the better part of that exchange, because I walked away with this: &#8220;What is it?&#8221; I can hear you asking, in awed and shushed tones.\u00a0 That, my friends, is [&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":[39],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}