{"id":255,"date":"2011-07-12T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-07-12T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T22:59:54","slug":"and_suddenly_im_10_years_old_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/and_suddenly_im_10_years_old_a\/","title":{"rendered":"and suddenly, I&#8217;m 10 years old again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey!  You know what&#8217;s cool again??<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/5932558294\/\" title=\"and suddenly, I'm 10 again by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6002\/5932558294_2f51f97624_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" alt=\"and suddenly, I'm 10 again\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re cool with EVERYBODY, but they&#8217;re cool with me!  I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purlbee.com\/the-purl-bee\/2011\/7\/10\/mollys-sketchbook-friendship-bracelets.html\">post<\/a> the other day on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purlbee.com\/\">The Purl Bee<\/a>, that featured old school macram\u00e9d friendship bracelets and I decided I had to make some immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I can <em>so<\/em> clearly remember taking home the free, peel off instruction sheets on how to make the various bracelets from the Piece Goods Shop at the mall in about the 4th grade.  I worked for hours on them, and would use my allowance to go back and buy more of the colorful floss to make more and more.  I never really thought of it as doing a craft back then, but now I think about how these were part of my start in loving to make things for myself and other people.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, they&#8217;re super fun.  And I make way good ones. AND, if you&#8217;re my friend, I just might make you one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! You know what&#8217;s cool again?? Okay, so I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re cool with EVERYBODY, but they&#8217;re cool with me! I saw a post the other day on The Purl Bee, that featured old school macram\u00e9d friendship bracelets and I decided I had to make some immediately. I can so clearly remember taking home <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/and_suddenly_im_10_years_old_a\/\" 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}