{"id":1717,"date":"2011-10-20T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:08:59","slug":"celtic-knot-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Knot Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was inspired to carve what I thought was an original idea into a pumpkin…a Celtic Knot. So, I googled it to see what I might find expecting few if any hits. Turns out, not only have people done it, Martha freaking Stewart even has a couple of templates. Sigh. Oh well, I guess if she has templates, I should just use them. No sense re-inventing the wheel, right?
\nAt the time, I felt a little bit like I was cheating. Now, I’ve lost count of how many hours I’ve spent cleaning and carving and it no longer feels like I cheated. In fact, last Friday night when I took this picture, it felt like a hand cramp.
\"\"<\/a><\/br><\/br>The hours kept adding up. It took me over an hour to get a decent picture of it lit.
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\nI had the idea not to cut all the way through to preserve the structural integrity of the pumpkin. And also, to preserve the structural integrity of my digits.
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\nIn the end, I was pleased with my efforts. Original or not, this pumpkin is a darn site better than my last attempt at pumpking carving. Turns out that Martha Stewart can make a mean template. <\/p>\n

And as my lovely friend Bonita said, “that’ll teach me to trust my cell-mates”. <\/br>
\nPs. Special thanks to Turtle for the use of her sink. :)
\nPps. If you go to Things Celtic on Facebook and “like” one of the photos of my pumpkin, I’ll be forever grateful!<\/a> I’ve entered it in a contest and I’m just a wee bit competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was inspired to carve what I thought was an original idea into a pumpkin…a Celtic Knot. So, I googled it to see what I might find expecting few if any hits. Turns out, not only have people done it, Martha freaking Stewart even has a couple of templates. Sigh. Oh well, I guess if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}