{"id":132,"date":"2005-12-22T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T17:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2005-12-22T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T17:58:01","slug":"birthday_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/birthday_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister&#8217;s 21st birthday was this past Tuesday.  And the perfect present for a sister who&#8217;s just turned 21 is of course&#8230; knitted socks.  Whoo.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/acv.sized.jpg\" width=300 alt=\"21st Birthday socks\"><\/center><br \/>\nWhile I was knitting the second sock I had a revelation while watching an episode of Knitty Gritty about sock knitting (oh my gosh, I&#8217;m knitting a sock, while watching a show about knitting socks!  How weird!), about how to better pick up the stitches along the heel so there would be less gapping between the stitiches.  I was really amazed how obviously better the second sock was than the first.<br \/>\nI at least hope she&#8217;ll wear them next time she has a drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister&#8217;s 21st birthday was this past Tuesday. And the perfect present for a sister who&#8217;s just turned 21 is of course&#8230; knitted socks. Whoo. While I was knitting the second sock I had a revelation while watching an episode of Knitty Gritty about sock knitting (oh my gosh, I&#8217;m knitting a sock, while watching <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/birthday_socks\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}