{"id":1616,"date":"2006-08-07T23:28:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/08\/07\/its-not-a-silk-purse-but\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:06","slug":"its-not-a-silk-purse-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/08\/07\/its-not-a-silk-purse-but\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not a Silk Purse, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been meaning to knit a small purse that will hold my wallet and keys and that I can fit into my messenger\/laptop bag. I no longer carry a purse; my wallet goes into the front pocket on my laptop bag. But sometimes a girl needs just to carry her wallet. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve nearly walked away without it on several occasions (while in a store for example). This morning I forgot to put the wallet back into the laptop bag for work. So when I got home, I pulled out the yarn and needles. Six hours later, this is the result.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/209880869\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/79\/209880869_7a74d00910.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" alt=\"gray purse with buttons\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The mother of pearl buttons are from my Mom. The strap is a bit longer than I&#8217;d wanted, but it will suffice. My hands ache, but I feel very pleased with how I spent my evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been meaning to knit a small purse that will hold my wallet and keys and that I can fit into my messenger\/laptop bag. I no longer carry a purse; my wallet goes into the front pocket on my laptop bag. But sometimes a girl needs just to carry her wallet. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve nearly walked [&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-1616","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\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}