{"id":4775,"date":"2009-08-18T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:40:43","slug":"a-new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/08\/18\/a-new-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point in a knitter&#8217;s life that one must move beyond scarves and hats. I decided that the next reasonable step &#8212; one which would likely result in a completed project &#8212; is to knit socks. Bean and I went to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purlescenceyarns.com\/\">local yarn store<\/a> today, and I acquired the needles and yarn. I&#8217;ve never knit on anything so thin (size 1.5, which is 2.5 millimeters thick). They&#8217;re like toothpicks. Bean really enjoyed the store; we&#8217;re able to stay increasingly longer periods (almost an hour yesterday) as she learns not to pull all the yarn off the shelves. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/3831820289\/\" title=\"new project by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2596\/3831820289_a1ac27ab3b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"new project\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point in a knitter&#8217;s life that one must move beyond scarves and hats. I decided that the next reasonable step &#8212; one which would likely result in a completed project &#8212; is to knit socks. Bean and I went to our local yarn store today, and I acquired the needles and yarn. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","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=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13635,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/13635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}