{"id":384,"date":"2004-11-12T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2004-11-12T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T19:06:53","slug":"matryoshka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"matryoshka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother left for Japan today, which means I will soon head up to Portland to, you know, be with my father. SERENITY NOW. Anyway, he and my brother had a discussion and decided they were in agreement that I am &#8220;a pain in the ass,&#8221; so I figure I am going to try to live up to their ideals. Ha ha ha! Watch out!<br \/>\nMy father will undoubtedly ask me as soon as I enter the house, &#8220;Did you bring me a present?&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t really matter what it is as long as he gets something. Food isn&#8217;t always good, because he usually squirrels it away in his room, and the ants inevitably find it. So today when I was out running errands I found this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/matroshka.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"matroshka.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/matroshka-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMatryoshka, also known as &#8220;Russian nesting dolls&#8221; and also on my list of best-ever inventions. This is supposedly the Nutcracker. Whatever. He will like it. I also found these giant tubes of Rowntree&#8217;s Fruit Pastilles, yet another tasty candy from abroad. (Re: the Smarties. Is it me, or do they have a donut aftertaste?)<br \/>\nFor those of you searching for knitting content, yes, I&#8217;m knitting, but I&#8217;m knitting something that is a secret swap thing, so I can&#8217;t show it to you, and it&#8217;s also been one of those weeks where I fall fast asleep in front of the TV, so progress has been slow. I did start the Ribby Cardi, but you don&#8217;t really want to see 1&#8243; of ribbing, do you? Wouldn&#8217;t you rather see giant tubes of candy and matryoshka?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother left for Japan today, which means I will soon head up to Portland to, you know, be with my father. SERENITY NOW. Anyway, he and my brother had a discussion and decided they were in agreement that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=384\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}