{"id":623,"date":"2010-09-19T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2010-09-20T05:49:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:49:45","slug":"piles-of-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Piles of silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saving up tidbits for you, but didn&#8217;t get to them this weekend because I did this instead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/yarn20100919.jpg\" alt=\"dyed silk\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 5,400 yards of silk in ten colors. [No wait! I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that&#8217;s really <b>6,400<\/b> dyed yards, or 64 skeins.] At the beginning of the weekend it was all on cones like the one in the back left, glistening whitely. The back skeins are nearly dry; the front piles just came out of their last rinse. (Photo not so great, sorry &#8211; it&#8217;s dark out and I used the flash, which does not do a good job with textile colors.)<\/p>\n<p>Everything needs to dry completely, be wound onto bobbins, and be sent on its merry way. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, time to hang it up to dry and go watch Doctor Who, drink beer, and eat nachos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saving up tidbits for you, but didn&#8217;t get to them this weekend because I did this instead. That&#8217;s 5,400 yards of silk in ten colors. [No wait! I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that&#8217;s really 6,400 dyed yards, or 64 skeins.] At the beginning of the weekend it [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}