{"id":256,"date":"2009-11-07T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2009-11-07T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:31:00","slug":"what-i-did-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"What I Did This Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of the afternoon making sun spinners for the church bazaar and crafts sale tomorrow. I thought about just putting up the picture and making you guess what it was, but then decided that might not be fair.<\/p>\n<p>A few sun spinners hanging low in the shop:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SvTlxubhVmI\/AAAAAAAAAcA\/VY80Q6EcG-M\/s1600-h\/mvc-181f.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SvTlxubhVmI\/AAAAAAAAAcA\/VY80Q6EcG-M\/s400\/mvc-181f.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SvTl_v2-9lI\/AAAAAAAAAcI\/pnc6x5Tm_sU\/s1600-h\/mvc-184f.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/SvTl_v2-9lI\/AAAAAAAAAcI\/pnc6x5Tm_sU\/s400\/mvc-184f.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You&#8217;d be amazed how much sun these doodads can sparkle and throw about with just a little air motion and some sunlight. Given I have a few thousand old software CDs <i>(I am a true pack rat)<\/i>, this is one of the uses I have put them to. I also use them to make custom Christmas trees &#8211; maybe I&#8217;ll finally get a picture of one of them up here one of these days. <i>(You can also spot Molly&#8217;s shop bed in the background if you look carefully.)<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The only bad thing about making the spinners is that spending all afternoon beading and knotting with mono-filament line in the low humidity has left my finger tips tender and cracked. Tender enough that some keys are painful to type and makes correcting errors a interesting task.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So what did you do today?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of the afternoon making sun spinners for the church bazaar and crafts sale tomorrow. I thought about just putting up the picture and making you guess what it was, but then decided that might not be fair. A few sun spinners hanging low in the shop: You&#8217;d be amazed how much sun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Did This Afternoon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[305,230,304],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}