{"id":342,"date":"2005-03-10T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=342"},"modified":"2005-03-10T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T14:16:47","slug":"short-little-span-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Short little span of attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first summer that I lived in Sweden, my friend Leslie taught me how to crochet.  I started out with potholders then moved quickly on to scarves and stocking caps, branching out eventually into granny squares, doilies, and snowflake tree ornaments.   I did rather well with small items that didn&#8217;t take long to complete.  Then, several days after I found out I was pregnant with Tage, I embarked on my most ambitious project, a baby afghan.<\/p>\n<p>Today, less than three-and-a-half years later, I finally completed it.  Both Lydia and Olof have asked if I was going to save it for the new baby, but since I started it for Tage, it hardly seemed right to give it to someone else.  He seems to agree:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/tage\/images\/tageafghan10march2005.jpg\" border=2><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>(The colors aren&#8217;t reproduced well here &#8212; it&#8217;s actually dark purple and teal rather than sage and cornflower.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first summer that I lived in Sweden, my friend Leslie taught me how to crochet. I started out with potholders then moved quickly on to scarves and stocking caps, branching out eventually into granny squares, doilies, and snowflake tree ornaments. I did rather well with small items that didn&#8217;t take long to complete. Then,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=342\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short little span of attention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}