{"id":927,"date":"2010-10-25T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=927"},"modified":"2010-10-26T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T01:58:27","slug":"texas-state-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My UT star baby blanket won honorable mention at the Texas State Fair this year so, TH and I and family road tripped to Dallas to see it on display. My FIL&#8217;s comment was, &#8220;it&#8217;s orange?&#8221;! He and the Mrs. went to tu but all of their kids went to aTm and married Aggies, so he didn&#8217;t quite follow why I made a burnt orange afghan. So, I told him the story of how I have a REALLY good friend, the kind you&#8217;d not only help hide a body, but you&#8217;d let them bury it in your yard and be their alibi&#8230;..but, she went to tu, so when I wanted to make her a baby blanket, I decided to overlook the rivalry and make her a longhorn colored blanket. What do you think of the aTm t-shirt with the UT blanket?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_16091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_16091-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1609\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_16091-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_16091-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here, you can see it with the rest of the display. Overall, I was very pleased with how it was shown.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1616.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1616-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1616\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1616-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1616.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother friend, Sam, entered a blanket for the first time this year. She was my crochet mentor when I started the pinwheel blanket many moons ago. We even went to the P.O. together to mail our entries. I was thrilled for her that she won Honorable Mention.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1618-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1618\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1618-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1618.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My UT star baby blanket won honorable mention at the Texas State Fair this year so, TH and I and family road tripped to Dallas to see it on display. My FIL&#8217;s comment was, &#8220;it&#8217;s orange?&#8221;! He and the Mrs. went to tu but all of their kids went to aTm and married Aggies, so [&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":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}