{"id":992,"date":"2008-11-22T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-11-22T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:06:18","slug":"it-has-been-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"It has been so long…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I will get back on the computer this weekend and post some new material. My legions of fans… (you know who you are, TG76) will have noticed that it has been almost<\/span>\u00a0more than two months since I last posted. It is not a coincidence that my last post was just before starting my new job at the bank. I’ve been climbing the learning curve there ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have<\/em>\u00a0been knitting, though! And I’ll have some progress photos to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will get back on the computer this weekend and post some new material. My legions of fans… (you know who you are, TG76) will have noticed that it has been almost\u00a0more than two months since I last posted. It is not a coincidence that my last post was just before starting my new job … Continue reading “It has been so long…”<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-g0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=997","url_meta":{"origin":992,"position":0},"title":"Sandy’s Tam","author":"Jorah","date":"December 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished Sandy's tam in plenty of time to deliver it to her. 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