{"id":897,"date":"2007-12-19T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=897"},"modified":"2007-12-19T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T15:13:22","slug":"whipping-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Whipping Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin took the girls up to the mountain today to play in the snow.  They looked so cute in their snow bibs and coats.  It&#8217;s  horrible cold and rainy down here.  I made Kevin take chains.  I hope they make it!<\/p>\n<p>I have been working feverishly here in the quiet of an empty house.  It struck me last night as I looked over my to-do list that I had forgotten Leina&#8217;s teacher.  Ack!  I immediately thought of a Starbuck&#8217;s gift card.  But as I thrashed around my little desk, I came across an old neglected pattern for a candle coaster.  And since I have all this wool felt and ample time, I thought I&#8217;d add it to my Christmas craft list.  (Can you say fool of a Took?)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s done.  Now I&#8217;m seriously behind.  It&#8217;s also beyond cute and I covet it for myself.  I&#8217;m thinking next year, this may be the present dujour.  What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/candle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have no cute tea light holder so it looks like I&#8217;m braving the rain to hit the Dollar Tree\/Target.  I have 101 tea light holders somewhere.  Why is it when I need one, they have all magically disappeared?!?!<\/p>\n<p>OK, back to the sewing machine.  I have one last holiday banner to crank out.  Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin took the girls up to the mountain today to play in the snow. They looked so cute in their snow bibs and coats. It&#8217;s horrible cold and rainy down here. I made Kevin take chains. I hope they make it! I have been working feverishly here in the quiet of an empty house. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-et","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}