{"id":1453,"date":"2010-07-17T06:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2010-07-17T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T20:59:03","slug":"my-congenital-disposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/07\/17\/my-congenital-disposition\/","title":{"rendered":"my congenital disposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband brought the local newspaper in from the letterbox on Thursday morning. As I ate my breakfast, I paged through it. A little way in, (definitely further than page 3&#8230;) I was shocked to turn the page and find myself smiling back at me!<\/p>\n<p>A long-lost article about me and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/left-handed-book.html\">left-handed stitch dictionary<\/a> was finally printed. It wasn&#8217;t all that long or lost, however as it was organised about a month ago actually as promotion for the craft show, but it never went in at the time, I just assumed it had been shelved. That&#8217;s why I was so shocked to finally see it there.<\/p>\n<p>It is reasonably accurate in what it says, though it does make out that I had trouble being a left-handed stitcher, which was never the case. Being left-handed has never bothered me when interpreting right-handed instructions. I realise that I am very fortunate in that, as not all lefties are able to do that.<\/p>\n<p>But the most amusing aspect of the article is that it refers to my left-handedness as a congenital disposition. And I quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who would have thought something as simple as a congenital disposition would be so frustrating?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A WHAT?! Well, I suppose it is a congenital disposition, as I was born that way, but equally, right-handers have a congenital disposition to being right-handed, and they seem to manage&#8230; You could also say that I have a congenital disposition towards being able to see, or eat, or walk&#8230; What a ridiculous thing to say, but it has provided a good laugh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband brought the local newspaper in from the letterbox on Thursday morning. As I ate my breakfast, I paged through it. A little way in, (definitely further than page 3&#8230;) I was shocked to turn the page and find myself smiling back at me!<\/p>\n<p>A long-lost article about me and my left-handed stitch dictionary [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-left-handed-embroidery","category-the-left-handed-embroiderers-companion","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","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=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}