{"id":289,"date":"2008-01-05T23:22:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/01\/05\/triumph-of-dexterity-over-string-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T23:22:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T03:22:31","slug":"triumph-of-dexterity-over-string-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Triumph of Dexterity over String"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love knitting because it&#8217;s something that can be accomplished no matter how poorly it&#8217;s going at any given moment.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a triumph of dexterity over string.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t make my kids turn out the way I want; I have no control over my editor; world peace remains elusive despite my very best efforts; but all of that be damned &#8212; I can put a heel in a sock and it will go exactly the way I want it to go.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, <em>Yarn Harlot:\u00c2\u00a0 The Secret Life of a Knitter, <\/em>p. xiii<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love knitting because it&#8217;s something that can be accomplished no matter how poorly it&#8217;s going at any given moment.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a triumph of dexterity over string.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t make my kids turn out the way I want; I have no control over my editor; world peace remains elusive despite my very best efforts; but [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}