{"id":363,"date":"2005-05-16T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T01:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=363"},"modified":"2005-05-16T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T01:46:32","slug":"363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is in a couple of weeks, but <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnover.blogdrive.com\/\">Jill<\/a> got in early. Look what she made for me! A <b>Polar Bear<\/b>!<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"polarbear.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/polarbear.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nEvery time there is a gift giving occasion, DH and Em ask me what I want. I always say that I&#8217;d like a polar bear. Hasn&#8217;t happened yet. Until now \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThankyou, Jill, he&#8217;s <b>gorgeous<\/b>!<br \/>\nI have started a new sweater, <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEfall04\/PATTgiraffe.html\">Giraffe<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\">Knitty<\/a>. I&#8217;m using the Angora Supreme the pattern calls for, which has been discontinued by Cleckheaton. I started a sweater with this yarn early last year, but couldn&#8217;t get gauge, so I frogged it, and hid the yarn away. This time, my gauge is pretty good, and the sweater is going quickly.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done the second of four decreases on the back.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"giraffestart.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/giraffestart.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"295\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m off to find somewhere special for my polar bear to live. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My birthday is in a couple of weeks, but Jill got in early. Look what she made for me! A Polar Bear! Every time there is a gift giving occasion, DH and Em ask me what I want. I always say that I&#8217;d like a polar bear. Hasn&#8217;t happened yet. Until now \ud83d\ude42 Thankyou, Jill, [&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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}