{"id":2404,"date":"2008-06-16T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:36:50","slug":"aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/06\/16\/aspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At the yarn store I started realizing the enormity of the project. I was going to need almost thirty balls of wool. That&#8217;s a lot of yarn. That&#8217;s so much yarn that when I told the yarn store lady what I needed, she let out a low whistle and gave me a look that told me that she thought that maybe when I&#8217;m not knitting oversized afghans I amused myself by trying to pick up marbles with chopsticks. It&#8217;s so much that she had to go into the basement to look for two cases of the yarn in question. As she stacked the yarn on the counter she seemed a little incredulous. This should have been my first warning: When a person who sells yarn for a living thinks that maybe you&#8217;re buying a lot of yarn &#8212; well, it&#8217;s a sign. A different sort of knitter would have taken that as a hint. Me? I thought she was a knitter without aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Stephanie Pearl McPhee, <i>Yarn Harlot: the Secret Life of a Knitter<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the yarn store I started realizing the enormity of the project. I was going to need almost thirty balls of wool. That&#8217;s a lot of yarn. That&#8217;s so much yarn that when I told the yarn store lady what I needed, she let out a low whistle and gave me a look that told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-humor","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","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=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}