{"id":343,"date":"2004-11-28T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=343"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:37:56","slug":"blogging-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Holiday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several people I know (and you know who you are) took a vacation from blogging this weekend. Several of them, if you can count TWO as several, are knit bloggers and one of them (since I host her web page) continued to get comments on her last post which was last Tuesday! However, they did not quit their knitting. I observed them while they were allegedly watching TV and I saw them knitting and using some sort of odd <em>Trainspotting<\/em> clickers and little things that looked like rubber bands from some teenager&#8217;s braces.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\">my sister<\/a> and Carolyn. The sad part was that I was the only one watching the TV intently, and I was outvoted 2-to-1 on the movie choice. I wanted to see <em>Love, Actually<\/em> and they wanted to see <em>The Bourne Supremacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I only had to go to two yarn stores and I developed a little game to play while there: wondering if I could use any of the yarn to tie flies. I haven&#8217;t ever caught a fish on a fly (only went once) but I still daydream about it. But I have tied a bunch of flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people I know (and you know who you are) took a vacation from blogging this weekend. Several of them, if you can count TWO as several, are knit bloggers and one of them (since I host her web page) continued to get comments on her last post which was last Tuesday! However, they did not quit their knitting. I observed them while they were allegedly watching TV and I saw them knitting and using some sort of odd Trainspotting clickers and little things that looked like rubber bands from some teenager&#8217;s braces. OK, so it was my sister and Carolyn. The sad part was that I was the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogging Holiday.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}