{"id":808,"date":"2006-06-21T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2006-06-21T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T12:13:00","slug":"a-fast-descent-into-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"A Fast Descent Into Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friends aren&#8217;t even going to know who I am. I give you proof that the slippery slope to insanity has begun, and pretty soon I&#8217;ll be blogging from our trusted institution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tworivershospital.com\/indexnew.htm\">Two Rivers<\/a>. (A girlfriend of mine just started working at the state-run nervous hospital, and she said I won&#8217;t get to keep my knitting there. So much for my tax dollars helping me in the long run, I guess on some level I always knew I&#8217;d have to pay for quality institutionalization.)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/1600\/EvidenceoftheInsanity.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:center; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/400\/EvidenceoftheInsanity.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep. I have no idea why I&#8217;m doing this, except it was a small-ish project and I thought it would be good to do something different. And I ask, what is more natural in the 96-degree heat than to knit a wool hat? The answer, as you back away slowly, is: NOTHING. The kit is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaellisknitwear.com\/originals.html#hats\">Bea Ellis.<\/a> I know, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s as if the Amish suddenly started driving SUVs. I&#8217;ve professed such an utter distate of knitting with cotton (hey, this was less than 3&#8243; of that behavior &#8211; it&#8217;s just the lining of the hat, the lighter burgundy that&#8217;s crazily, mad-cap stitch-marker &#8220;hemmed&#8221; to the underside of the hat), and then I&#8217;ve been equally vocal with my dislike of fair isle knitting&#8230;. well, all I can say is, send cards. Come visit. Because I have the yarn to make at least two or three more of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends aren&#8217;t even going to know who I am. I give you proof that the slippery slope to insanity has begun, and pretty soon I&#8217;ll be blogging from our trusted institution, Two Rivers. (A girlfriend of mine just started working at the state-run nervous hospital, and she said I won&#8217;t get to keep my [&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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}