{"id":794,"date":"2011-07-25T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2011-07-25T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T03:05:52","slug":"this-should-totally-be-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"This Should Totally Be A Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was honored to be one of the bridesmaids at my friend Erica’s wedding a couple weekends ago.\u00a0 It was the first time I’d ever bridesmaided (I’m totally making that a word), and no one in my family has had a wedding involving bridesmaids, so I got to learn about all sorts of nifty traditions that I had never known about before.<\/p>\n

Like, for example, not only do the guests give the couple presents (everyone knew about that one, right?), but the bride gives the bridesmaids presents!<\/p>\n

Erica being the lovely woman that she is, she decided to personalize the gifts for each of us.\u00a0 So, along with a bunch of other stuff that I found absolutely charming, delightful, wonderful, or all three, I found:<\/p>\n

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Sock yarn from Spud & Chloe, in the perfect shade of green.\u00a0 This completely matches the wedding present<\/a> my mother-in-law gave me when I got married, and has made me come to a realization.<\/p>\n

All weddings should involve giving me yarn.\u00a0 Or, at least, they should if I’m doing something more significant than attending them.\u00a0 I guess it’s not a requirement if you’re just going to invite me to any wedding…<\/p>\n

…although, quite frankly, I wouldn’t mind if it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was honored to be one of the bridesmaids at my friend Erica’s wedding a couple weekends ago.\u00a0 It was the first time I’d ever bridesmaided (I’m totally making that a word), and no one in my family has had a wedding involving bridesmaids, so I got to learn about all sorts of nifty traditions […]<\/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":[37,39],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wedding","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}