{"id":282,"date":"2007-12-31T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/31\/knitting-a-miracle-worker\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:58:12","slug":"knitting-a-miracle-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Knitting, a Miracle Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What non-knitters are missing is the personality-enhancing qualities of knitting.\u00c2\u00a0 Knitting is a miracle worker.\u00c2\u00a0 With knitting, people can suddenly do things they couldn&#8217;t do before.\u00c2\u00a0 They can wait in line without becoming impatient.\u00c2\u00a0 They can sit through a grade-school concert with a smile.\u00c2\u00a0 They can handle long meetings and lectures, all without bothering other people or pacing around like lunatics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, <em>Knitting Rules, <\/em>p. 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What non-knitters are missing is the personality-enhancing qualities of knitting.\u00c2\u00a0 Knitting is a miracle worker.\u00c2\u00a0 With knitting, people can suddenly do things they couldn&#8217;t do before.\u00c2\u00a0 They can wait in line without becoming impatient.\u00c2\u00a0 They can sit through a grade-school concert with a smile.\u00c2\u00a0 They can handle long meetings and lectures, all without bothering other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}