{"id":1142,"date":"2010-06-12T06:56:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2010-06-12T06:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:56:35","slug":"merezhka-on-dnieper-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/06\/12\/merezhka-on-dnieper-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Merezhka on the Dnieper River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dnieper River is the fourth longest river in Europe, and flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>One of my customers recently wrote to me about a wonderful cruise that he and his mother had taken together on the Dnieper River and Black Sea. His 86 year-old mother explored the ship&#8217;s library and found a copy of my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/ukrainian-embroidery.html\">Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska<\/a> there. She was quite taken with the technique, and on their return she ordered a copy of the book for herself so that she can continue to enjoy merezhka.<\/p>\n<p>I was thrilled to hear this story, as I found it amazing that someone at the cruise company had been thoughtful enough to include a copy of my book in the ship&#8217;s library, thereby sharing an aspect of the local culture with the cruise passengers. It was also lovely to hear just how much the mother&#8217;s interest was piqued by merezhka.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my customer for sharing the story with me.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else found a copy of any of my books in an unusual place? I&#8217;d love to hear about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dnieper River is the fourth longest river in Europe, and flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>One of my customers recently wrote to me about a wonderful cruise that he and his mother had taken together on the Dnieper River and Black Sea. His 86 year-old mother explored the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-merezhka","category-ukrainian-drawn-thread-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}