{"id":188,"date":"2007-02-02T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/02\/02\/knitting-is-serious-business\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T00:36:25","slug":"knitting-is-serious-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/knitting-is-serious-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting is Serious Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appar\u00adently there\u2019s a group of nuns in hid\u00ading after their knit\u00adting busi\u00adness went bust; they are even said to have mort\u00adgaged a mon\u00adas\u00adtery to fin\u00adance their efforts to keep up with the latest fash\u00adions in knit\u00adting design. More on the story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzle.com\/articles\/125556.html\" title=\"story on nuns going bust knitting\">Nuns on the Run<\/a> (link from <a href=\"http:\/\/whipup.net\/2007\/02\/02\/nuns-on-the-run\/\" title=\"link to whip up\">whip up<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>On first read\u00ading it\u2019s funny; then I found it sad that their attempt to (I assume) give the mon\u00adas\u00adtery a sound fin\u00adan\u00adcial foot\u00ading went so astray. So often these attempts by mon\u00adas\u00adter\u00adies to fin\u00adance them\u00adselves by selling wine, beer, or oth\u00ader comest\u00adibles is lauded to the hilt \u2014 were these women pres\u00adsured to rep\u00adlic\u00adate those suc\u00adcesses? It\u2019s no sur\u00adprise if mon\u00adas\u00adtery busi\u00adnesses fail just like oth\u00ader busi\u00adnesses do, of course, but some\u00adhow I sus\u00adpect the con\u00adsequences are different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appar\u00adently there\u2019s a group of nuns in hid\u00ading after their knit\u00adting busi\u00adness went bust; they are even said to have mort\u00adgaged a mon\u00adas\u00adtery to fin\u00adance their efforts to keep up with the latest fash\u00adions in knit\u00adting design. More on the story in Nuns on the Run (link from whip up). On first read\u00ading it\u2019s funny; \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/knitting-is-serious-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cKnit\u00adting is Ser\u00adi\u00adous Business\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}