{"id":1244,"date":"2008-02-01T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2008-02-01T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T20:02:00","slug":"thank-the-friggin-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Thank The Friggin&#8217; Sheep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mermaid Socks are FINALLY DONE!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/2234677499\/\" title=\"Noro Socks by plazajen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2232\/2234677499_7cd1f4799c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Noro Socks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was looking at various needles for the next pair of socks, and after slogging on these darned socks for so long, on DOUBLE ZEROS, I am not kidding when I say #2 US needles felt like large sticks. These socks seriously warped my reality of sock knitting. It will be a while before I snatch up that other skein of Noro and make a different pair of socks. Hell, I think I only used half of the first skein. I will be putting these on tonight to test out how scratchy they actually are, and then I&#8217;ll wash &#8217;em and report back on bloomage. I&#8217;m counting on the yarn to bloom! <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a&#8230;challenging week. So when I went to World Market to get some King Cake mix, I became transfixed, caught in the tractor beam of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/2234677307\/\" title=\"Emergency Rx by plazajen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2391\/2234677307_282e075e5c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Emergency Rx\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s chocolate. And you think you&#8217;re looking at a normal-sized square of Ritter. Oh no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/2235465108\/\" title=\"Xtremely Large Ritter Sport by plazajen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2299\/2235465108_b20fb17698.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Xtremely Large Ritter Sport\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look! A Nielsen Media ruler for scale. Five &#038; a half inches square of milk chocolate. If I put it directly on the keyboard, and align the left side with the letter &#8220;A&#8221;, it obscures all of the letters in that row, leaving only the colon peeking out (a phrase never to be taken out of context). That&#8217;s nine keyboard letters of chocolate, friends. And even though I love all kinds of chocolate, milk is always my tried &#038; true go-to.  What was really crazy is that the signage said it was $2.29. I was sold. Of course, it actually cost $4.99, it wasn&#8217;t placed by the correct price, but at that point, I really didn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>This size is good for at least 3 crises, maybe 4, depending on their size. I am prepared!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to knitting &#038; making a dent in the non-Noro sock yarn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mermaid Socks are FINALLY DONE! I was looking at various needles for the next pair of socks, and after slogging on these darned socks for so long, on DOUBLE ZEROS, I am not kidding when I say #2 US needles felt like large sticks. These socks seriously warped my reality of sock knitting. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}