{"id":191,"date":"2004-09-09T22:44:34","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=191"},"modified":"2004-09-09T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:44:34","slug":"i-feel-a-little-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"I feel a little guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little guilty about my yarn stash of late.<br \/>\nSo instead of buying yarn today, I bought knitting books \ud83d\ude42 Just as much pleasure, less than half the guilt! Yes, I can justify anything \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nSo off I went to play at Amazon. One of the biggest jokes of the known world is how much cheaper it is to buy pretty much anything knit-related in the USA as compared to buying it locally. I was perusing the Rowan collection. In Australia, I can get Rowan Junior for $AU 52. I got it from amazon today for $US13.97 (AU20.22) See what I mean? Now the postage costs can hit you where it hurts, but it still works out much better to get stuff from the USA.<br \/>\nSo I finally ordered Rowan Junior, Pipsqueaks, 365 Knitting Stitches and The Knitter&#8217;s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns. I put stuff in my cart, I took stuff out. I dithered and I played about and finally settled on those four books. Good Lord I hope I made the right decision!<br \/>\nNow I have to wait until October 6 &#8211; 13 to get them. \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nWhy? Because I also ordered the final Stephen King Dark Tower book which is not released until September 21, and I asked for it all to be shipped in one shipment (Those postage costs, you know!) Now I have to wait a month before I get all my beautiful books! And it&#8217;s the Stephen King book I&#8217;m <i>really<\/i> dying to get.<br \/>\nSo, what knitting books do you swear by? Which ones can&#8217;t you live without? Let me know, so I can order them next time! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a little guilty about my yarn stash of late. So instead of buying yarn today, I bought knitting books \ud83d\ude42 Just as much pleasure, less than half the guilt! Yes, I can justify anything \ud83d\ude09 So off I went to play at Amazon. One of the biggest jokes of the known world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}