{"id":981,"date":"2008-06-28T09:38:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-06-28T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:38:06","slug":"excuses-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, excuses… just show me the post, already"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a bunch of ready-made excuses for why it has been six weeks since I last posted here (trip to New England, work is crazy, no time at home… et cetera, et fracking cetera… weep for me<\/em>), but none of them matter a bit. Reality is that I could have posted any time, but I ended up watching Battlestar Galactica DVDs or surfing Ravelry<\/a> instead. I finally did get started on some knitting, continuing ever so slowly on my next set of fingerless gloves (the Cabled Fingerless<\/a> mitts by Carissa Browning<\/a>) and starting on the afghan kit that I won at the Charlotte World Wide Knit in Public<\/a> event a few weeks ago (many props to Charlotte Yarn<\/a> for the kit and the Charlotte Knitting Guild<\/a>, which organized the event). But of course I haven’t gotten photos of any of this. Perhaps this weekend I’ll break through the malaise I’ve been stuck in and get moving again. I actually installed a new WordPress blog on my old server at madstone.net<\/a>. Not sure what I’ll do with yet another blog, but what the hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a bunch of ready-made excuses for why it has been six weeks since I last posted here (trip to New England, work is crazy, no time at home… et cetera, et fracking cetera… weep for me), but none of them matter a bit. Reality is that I could have posted any time, but … Continue reading “Excuses, excuses… just show me the post, already”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[96,120],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-community","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-fP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":971,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=971","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"Cabled Mitts by Wiggins and Blevins","author":"Jorah","date":"February 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I cast on my first fingerless mitts after lunch on President's Day and completed the left-hand mitt well before supper. 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