{"id":124,"date":"2009-09-17T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-09-17T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T02:34:24","slug":"been-a-long-time-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Been a long time gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Aunt Jane has pointed out, I&#8217;ve been a big slacker blogger again!\u00a0 What have I been up to?\u00a0 Work.\u00a0 And then some work, then a bit more work.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some more loom knitting, and need to take some pics of stuff.\u00a0 I made a shawl out of this cool fuzzy blue yarn &#8211; if I wore shawls, it would be super awesome and useful!\u00a0 I might need to update my wardrobe.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m working on a scarf that I found a free pattern for in Michael&#8217;s, and then converted to the loom.\u00a0 I ended up taking it off and restarting it no fewer than\u00a06 times, but now it&#8217;s going strong!\u00a0 Woo!\u00a0 I tried just following the instructions and translating those to the loom, but I kept confusing myself.\u00a0 So&#8230; I put it in an Excel spreadsheet.\u00a0 And then, I applied conditional formatting to color code the different stitches, so I could get a good view of how the pattern looked.\u00a0 Technology and tradition, working together!!\u00a0 That&#8217;s cooperation!!\u00a0 (Yea, really no need for anyone to point out what a dork I am&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I also upgraded my blogging software and changed my theme!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been needing to upgrade for oh, say, a couple of years now, but I was scared!\u00a0 I thought it would be too hard to figure out!\u00a0 Turned out, it was a click of a button.\u00a0 So then I got all brave and crazy and changed the theme.\u00a0 I feel all techy-geeky-smart now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Aunt Jane has pointed out, I&#8217;ve been a big slacker blogger again!\u00a0 What have I been up to?\u00a0 Work.\u00a0 And then some work, then a bit more work.\u00a0 Whew! I&#8217;ve been doing some more loom knitting, and need to take some pics of stuff.\u00a0 I made a shawl out of this cool fuzzy blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}