{"id":132,"date":"2008-02-11T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-02-11T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T23:00:32","slug":"buttons-braids-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Buttons, braids and books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was too cold and snowy to go outside, so I spent the weekend indoors doing interesting things with string. (Also too dangerous &#8211; there was a 9-car pileup here in white-out conditions, and a 60-something car pileup in eastern PA.) <\/p>\n<p>Needle-lace buttons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/buttons2-20080211.jpg\" alt=\"Buttons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and matching fingerloop braids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/buttons20080211.jpg\" alt=\"Buttons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; as decorative book closures.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/book20080211.jpg\" alt=\"Buttons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book and its compatriots will be appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a> in the near future. Though I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have to keep one for, ah, testing purposes. (What color do you think would complement my pretty red pen?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was too cold and snowy to go outside, so I spent the weekend indoors doing interesting things with string. (Also too dangerous &#8211; there was a 9-car pileup here in white-out conditions, and a 60-something car pileup in eastern PA.) Needle-lace buttons&#8230; &#8230; and matching fingerloop braids&#8230; &#8230; as decorative book closures. The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-string"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}