{"id":320,"date":"2005-03-05T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=320"},"modified":"2005-03-05T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T22:42:19","slug":"another-quick-entry-today-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Another quick entry today. I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick entry today.<br \/>\nI have been trying to teach Emily to knit since she was about 6 or so. As I said yesterday, she&#8217;ll be 12 in a few weeks, and the going hasn&#8217;t always been good. She wants to knit, she just can&#8217;t seem to get the hang of it, and wasn&#8217;t enjoying it.<br \/>\nWhilst surfing the web the other day, I was reading bits about continental knitting. I knit English, always have, and doubt that I could knit any other way. When I started thinking about it, Emily can&#8217;t hold the yarn in her right hand, twisted around her little finger the way I do. She kept saying &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t feel right, I can&#8217;t do it&#8221; BTW, she is righthanded.<br \/>\nIt suddenly occurred to me that maybe I should show her how to knit continental.<br \/>\nTalk about a Eureka moment. Her face lit up and she said &#8220;That&#8217;s <i>so<\/i> much better!&#8221;<br \/>\nThen she knit five rows on her cozy for her most precious possession, her mobile phone \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re taking Twink to the vet this morning. When I was taking photos yesterday, I was laying on the floor in front of her, which is a different perspective than usual. When I was taking the photos, I noticed a &#8220;lump&#8221; under her chin. This is new, and I&#8217;m a little concerned, so we&#8217;re off to the vet.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twinklump.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/twinklump.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t seem to bother her, but I&#8217;m a worrywart. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick entry today. I have been trying to teach Emily to knit since she was about 6 or so. As I said yesterday, she&#8217;ll be 12 in a few weeks, and the going hasn&#8217;t always been good. She wants to knit, she just can&#8217;t seem to get the hang of it, and wasn&#8217;t enjoying [&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-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}