{"id":711,"date":"2006-04-23T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=711"},"modified":"2006-04-23T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T22:01:46","slug":"and-now-the-weekend-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"and now the weekend is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a truly glorious weekend here in the Pacific Northwest. It was the first weekend this year with 70+ degree weather, and let me tell you, when you live in a rainy and dark place, people FREAK when the sun comes out. It was great. Of course, for part of it I was stuck indoors as a volunteer at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordstockfestival.com\/\">Wordstock Festival<\/a>. It was totally worth it and fun, so I&#8217;m not complaining. I bought only one book there, one that was on my wish list anyway. The funny thing was the author was speaking when I bought the book, but I didn&#8217;t have a chance to stop and listen! Anyway, so far it&#8217;s a great read: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/2-0060583002-1\">The Last Season<\/a> by Eric Blehm.<br \/>\nThen today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-hero.net\/blog\/knitblog.html\">Melissa<\/a> and I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabricdepot.com\/\">Fabric Depot<\/a> for some supplies, and when I was grabbing embroidery floss for the needle punch kits that I decided I had to have, even though I need another hobby like I need a hole in the head, oh, wait, I probably HAVE a hole in my head, which is why I do irrational and idiotic things like buy needle punch kits that I will most likely never even open, Melissa yelled from a couple rows down, &#8220;THEY HAVE PHILDAR HERE!&#8221; Yes, indeed, Fabric Depot has a small, but very tangible and real, selection of Phildar:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/phildar at fabdep.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"phildar at fabdep.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/phildar at fabdep-thumb.JPG\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>It includes Phil Eponge and Aviso. Fair dinkum, maties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a truly glorious weekend here in the Pacific Northwest. It was the first weekend this year with 70+ degree weather, and let me tell you, when you live in a rainy and dark place, people FREAK when the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}