{"id":161,"date":"2008-05-13T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-05-13T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:34:13","slug":"socks-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Socks and science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But not, I&#8217;m afraid, the science of socks.<\/p>\n<p>I have finally finished something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sock1-20080512.jpg\" alt=\"finished socks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hooray. These are from sock yarn I dyed &#8211; important to make a trial pair up so I can show what they look like. The ankle and top of the foot are in a k2-p2 ribbing that&#8217;s staggered one stitch with every row. I even remembered to make the diagonals go the opposite direction on the second sock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/sock2-20080512.jpg\" alt=\"finished socks closeup\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tamie is wearing them today, and claims to be quite pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Once in a while I post something odd from work. It&#8217;s all been equations and funny-looking diagrams, but I <i>do<\/i> also do science that looks, well, sciencey. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/science20080509.jpg\" alt=\"looks like science\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m headed back down to the lab to spend some more time with the balance. The more interesting-looking part of the science project in question looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/clover20080512.jpg\" alt=\"clover up close\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a red clover leaflet, and you can even see the hairs. Neat, no? Or is that just me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not, I&#8217;m afraid, the science of socks. I have finally finished something. Hooray. These are from sock yarn I dyed &#8211; important to make a trial pair up so I can show what they look like. The ankle and top of the foot are in a k2-p2 ribbing that&#8217;s staggered one stitch with every [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}