{"id":1019,"date":"2011-05-22T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2011-05-22T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:09:09","slug":"smore-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"smore like it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having started the socks mentioned in my previous post again from scratch, this time knitting on 2.75 instead of 2.25mm needles, they seem to be growing absurdly quickly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iphone-20110328 001 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5745808813\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3173\/5745808813_e74895f880.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110328 001\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I&#8217;d barely checked that they were big enough for a foot this time, when I was preparing to turn the heel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iphone-20110328 002 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5746357426\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2242\/5746357426_4a47f105b0.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110328 002\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this morning &#8211; less than a week later &#8211; I cast off the top (<a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEfall09\/FEATjssbo.php\" target=\"_blank\">jeny&#8217;s surprisingly stretchy bind-off<\/a>, for those interested).<\/p>\n<p>The shock was so much that on Saturday, I baked a cake.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iphone-20110328 003 by stephen_hanlon, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevehanlon\/5746357920\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2140\/5746357920_8e83aa46f0.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-20110328 003\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(chocolate base, almond essence in the icing and the sugar strands are less than 5 years out of date (I think))<\/p>\n<p>Sock 2 is cast on, fingers crossed for a speedy completion &#8211; the idea for the next set of socks is jumping about in my head going &#8220;me next! me next!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>20 hours later, there isn&#8217;t any cake left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having started the socks mentioned in my previous post again from scratch, this time knitting on 2.75 instead of 2.25mm needles, they seem to be growing absurdly quickly&#8230; Indeed, I&#8217;d barely checked that they were big enough for a foot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1019\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-so-sos","category-felicity-kendall-eat-your-heart-out","category-kids-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}