{"id":267,"date":"2004-12-21T21:21:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2004-12-21T21:21:55","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T11:21:55","slug":"well-i-picked-up-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Well, I picked up the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I picked up the spinning wheel. Everybody in the house has shown interest, but considering our combined knowledge (zilch), I&#8217;m thinking this will be a fun learning curve \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nMy DH has christened the wheel Kylie. Because she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kylie.com\/gh_site\/music\/spinning_around.htm\">&#8220;spinning around&#8221;. <\/a>The Aussies will get the joke, I&#8217;m not sure about the US people. I&#8217;ve reserved some spinning books at the library, and once we&#8217;re back from our trip, will begin learning in earnest. The wheel has no identifying marks at all, so I have no idea how old it is, or who made it.<br \/>\nI have two pics to show. This first one is of Emily on her first day of Kindergarten, 29 January 1998.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"first day at school.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/first day at school.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThis one ws taken today, Em&#8217;s last day of Year Six, the end of Primary School.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Em last day of Primary School.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/Em last day of Primary School.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nA day of mixed emotions. The time has flown, and I can&#8217;t believe that she&#8217;s heading off to High School at the end of next month. I&#8217;m proud of the young lady she is becoming, I just wish it weren&#8217;t happening quite so fast.<br \/>\nThe school makes a big deal of the last day. Fifteen minutes before the final bell, the whole school lines up in two lines, and makes a long arch for all of Year Six to walk through. Em had a bit of a cry, most of the other kids are going to the local High School, and she&#8217;s going to the Catholic High School, but she&#8217;s also excited about moving on.<br \/>\nGoogle obviously knew I needed a boost &#8211; <i>more<\/i> Polar Bears today! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"googlepolarbear2.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/googlepolarbear2.gif\" width=\"307\" height=\"132\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I picked up the spinning wheel. Everybody in the house has shown interest, but considering our combined knowledge (zilch), I&#8217;m thinking this will be a fun learning curve \ud83d\ude42 My DH has christened the wheel Kylie. Because she&#8217;s &#8220;spinning around&#8221;. The Aussies will get the joke, I&#8217;m not sure about the US people. I&#8217;ve [&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-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}