{"id":219,"date":"2010-06-11T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-06-11T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:30:56","slug":"the_best_time_of_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/the_best_time_of_year\/","title":{"rendered":"the best time of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of noon today, I am on summer break, and I am a very happy camper.<\/p>\n<p>See?<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/4691111193\/\" title=\"thumbs up for summer break! by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4691111193_85eb364c75.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"thumbs up for summer break!\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I love summer for so many reasons.  I love the flowers that grow in my garden. I love Fourth of July picnics, parades and fireworks. I love going swimming on hot days.  But more than all of that I love sewing as much as I want, all day long.  I feel like for two and a half months out of my year, I get to live my dream of being a full time quilter and crafter.  It&#8217;s bliss, and it&#8217;s what I look forward to all year long.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in only took about 10 minutes this afternoon to get started.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/4691110109\/\" title=\"new project by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1267\/4691110109_fc7ff0d3d2.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"new project\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bring on the new projects, the iced tea, the fresh blueberries, the day lilies that grow in my yard.  Bring on my most happy time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of noon today, I am on summer break, and I am a very happy camper. See? I love summer for so many reasons. I love the flowers that grow in my garden. I love Fourth of July picnics, parades and fireworks. I love going swimming on hot days. But more than all of that <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/the_best_time_of_year\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}