{"id":918,"date":"2012-06-29T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2015-10-27T05:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T05:07:42","slug":"are-you-there-internet-its-me-elisabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Are you there, Internet?  It&#8217;s me, Elisabeth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;it&#8217;s been a long time around here.\u00a0 An embarrassingly long time, in fact.\u00a0 I rather suddenly (but not entirely unexpectedly) started a new side project that&#8217;s been taking all of my time and energy &#8211; there was even a period of about three months that I literally did not knit a single stitch, despite never being more than about 10 feet from knitting at any given moment.\u00a0 It was just too much work to knit, after everything else that I was already doing.<\/p>\n<p>What is this massive side project, you ask?\u00a0 (Maybe you don&#8217;t &#8211; just play along.)\u00a0 Well&#8230;I&#8217;m not ready to share it with the world yet, so you&#8217;ll have to hold on to your curiosity a bit longer.\u00a0 For now, maybe you&#8217;ll be satisfied with some pictures of knitting I did before this new project started?<\/p>\n<p>How about some pictures of the finished <a href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/03\/a-portugese-hourglass-for-the-new-year\/\">Portugese Hourglass<\/a> socks sitting in the as-yet-unblooming tulips?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" title=\"P1030703\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030703.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And another one, for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-919\" title=\"P1030702\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/06\/oh-crap\/\">last post about these<\/a>, guess how much yarn I had left over when all was said and done?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-921\" title=\"P1030669\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/P1030669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about a foot and a half, right there.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know what I did to make the Knitting Fates like me, but I hope this was a repayment for past punishments instead of a loan against future crappiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;it&#8217;s been a long time around here.\u00a0 An embarrassingly long time, in fact.\u00a0 I rather suddenly (but not entirely unexpectedly) started a new side project that&#8217;s been taking all of my time and energy &#8211; there was even a period of about three months that I literally did not knit a single stitch, despite never [&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":[18,21,33],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finished-object","tag-knitting-fates","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}