{"id":76,"date":"2007-10-01T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2007-10-01T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T00:48:17","slug":"and-im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"And I&#8217;m back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about that! Something went wrong with the web hosting early Sunday afternoon. It was of course my fault because I changed these administrative settings (which I have never touched and have no reason to alter). In other words, they did an upgrade somewhere and it didn&#8217;t propagate correctly. And they quite possibly never would have noticed. I have <i>cheap<\/i> webhosting, which is usually fine since I don&#8217;t need much handholding, but once in a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to string. Today as you may have noticed is October 1. Some things were going to happen on that date. One certainly has &#8211; my Etsy shop is up, at <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.etsy.com\">stringpage.etsy.com<\/a> of course. Right now there&#8217;s not a whole lot: some handpainted roving, some handpainted sock yarn (both solar-dyed, and many of them have appeared here before), and a couple of drop spindles that I&#8217;m suffering great temptations over. &#8220;No, these aren&#8217;t good enough to sell. I&#8217;ll just have to keep them myself. What&#8217;s wrong with them? Er&#8230; um.&#8221; The whole thing is very exciting!<\/p>\n<p>The second thing: the <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=72\">Ravelry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=69\">contest<\/a>. The site was down for well over a day, so I&#8217;m going to extend the deadline until 9am October 3. That&#8217;s Wednesday morning, Eastern Daylight Time, okay? I somehow don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll get my invite by then, so no rush!<\/p>\n<p>I have a new picture of the prize to entice you, now skeined and ready to go. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/prize20071001.jpg\" alt=\"Ravelry prize\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One skein (ca 460 yards) of self-striping handpainted merino\/nylon sock yarn in very cheery colors. You know you want it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about that! Something went wrong with the web hosting early Sunday afternoon. It was of course my fault because I changed these administrative settings (which I have never touched and have no reason to alter). In other words, they did an upgrade somewhere and it didn&#8217;t propagate correctly. And they quite possibly never would [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}