{"id":2990,"date":"2012-07-24T21:52:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2012-07-25T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T11:44:09","slug":"random-thoughts-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. I didn&#8217;t blog at all last week. I think the lack of knitting for so long left me in a funk; I was not fit company.<br \/>\n<br \/>2. The problem with being mildly OCD is that you have a lot of trouble settling for plan B even if plan B is perfectly reasonable. I found 3\/8&#8243; grosgrain ribbon in the exact shade that I wanted at the 5th store I tried.<br \/>\n<br \/>3. No, I did not see Batman &#8211; 2 hours and 45 minutes is longer than I want to sit in a theater for any movie that isn&#8217;t about an epic war (think Gone with the Wind, Braveheart). And also, Christian Bale just doesn&#8217;t move me. Michael Keaton is and always will be Batman&#8230;..I&#8217;m sad about the Colorado shooting &#8211; feel like the midnight movie folks are my peeps&#8230;what a senseless tragedy.<br \/>\n<br \/>4. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ravel.me\/Kat1e\/d867a\" target=\"_blank\">Annetrelac socks<\/a> that I started in September of last year are finished. It took me over a month to finish just the toes of the last sock because I was just more interested in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.violentlydomestic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Hammersen<\/a> socks in progress. As I got back into knitting after my hiatus, I had to start with stockinette and lo, the second sock fell off the needles completed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3456-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Annetrelac Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3456-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3456-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3456.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>5. Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/rabblerousers.pantsvillepress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter, she has a new mini-book out<\/a>. It looks fab! Check it out!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/uproar-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/uproar-21-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"Uproar cuffs\" title=\"uproar-2[1]\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/uproar-21-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/uproar-21-875x1024.jpg 875w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/uproar-21.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI want to make a chocolate colored Uproar Cuff out of this book for myself and wear it like a bracelet&#8230;..with a pewter button. What do we think? hip like Johnny Depp or will look like I&#8217;m trying to be hip? (probably not a good sign if I&#8217;m using the word &#8220;hip&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. I didn&#8217;t blog at all last week. I think the lack of knitting for so long left me in a funk; I was not fit company. 2. The problem with being mildly OCD is that you have a lot of trouble settling for plan B even if plan B is perfectly reasonable. I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,84,22,25],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-annetrelac","tag-cuffs","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-socks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","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=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}