{"id":1536,"date":"2006-06-04T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/04\/knitting-fool\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:46","slug":"knitting-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/04\/knitting-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My creativity seems to express itself in bursts of intense effort followed by long periods of inactivity. Case in point: After months of not knitting, in the last <em>week<\/em>, I have: a) finished a scarf I started last December; b) begun and finished a scarf for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireprojects.org\/dulaan.htm\">Dulaan Project<\/a>; and c) begun and finished my first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawlministry.com\/\">prayer shawl<\/a> (also known as comfort shawls, peace shawls, or mantles). (Since I meditate, I suppose that&#8217;s more accurate, but it&#8217;s commonly known as a prayer shawl.) The website suggests other purposes for the shawl, such as &#8220;undergoing medical procedures; as a comfort after a loss or in times of stress; during bereavement; prayer or meditation; commitment or marriage ceremonies; birthing, nursing a baby; bridal shower or wedding gift; leading ritual; first menses or croning rites of passage; during an illness and recovery; ministering to others; graduation, birthday, anniversary, ordination, holiday gifts; or just socializing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/160161339\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/66\/160161339_33334f3d69.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"prayer shawl 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My creativity seems to express itself in bursts of intense effort followed by long periods of inactivity. Case in point: After months of not knitting, in the last week, I have: a) finished a scarf I started last December; b) begun and finished a scarf for the Dulaan Project; and c) begun and finished my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11082,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}