{"id":982,"date":"2008-06-28T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-06-28T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T18:44:18","slug":"stress-and-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Stress and knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only learned to knit nine months ago, but since then I&#8217;ve fallen into the pattern of stressing about unfinished projects. Last night, I knit three rows on the afghan, then set it aside to get ready for bed. I realized that I had no expectations about this particular project, and it was fine to get it done whenever. That realization was nice. I felt relaxed about working on the afghan a little at a time. I decided to treat all my knitting like this. After all, I&#8217;ve got more than enough other expectations &#8230;both external and internal&#8230; supplying plenty of stress, and don&#8217;t need my hobby to be another source of the lovely stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Hope I can keep this perspective for a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only learned to knit nine months ago, but since then I&#8217;ve fallen into the pattern of stressing about unfinished projects. Last night, I knit three rows on the afghan, then set it aside to get ready for bed. I realized that I had no expectations about this particular project, and it was fine to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stress and knitting&#8221;<\/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":[85],"tags":[96,119],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-community","tag-ufo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-fQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":983,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=983","url_meta":{"origin":982,"position":0},"title":"Done Some Monday Afghan","author":"Jorah","date":"June 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I went to a great event this month, the Charlotte version of the World Wide Knit in Public Day (a.k.a. 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