{"id":2405,"date":"2010-11-17T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2010-11-17T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T20:19:46","slug":"i-miss-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/11\/17\/i-miss-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"I miss Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was greeted by an email in my inbox from a lady in the Kenya Guild of Embroiderers in Nairobi. I didn&#8217;t even know that such a guild existed, though I&#8217;m pretty sure that there wasn&#8217;t a similar group in Addis Ababa. The Kenyan group recently had a workshop in Mountmellick embroidery from a visiting UK teacher, and very much enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am jealous! I would have loved to have visited them while in Ethiopia &#8211; Nairobi isn&#8217;t so far from Addis &#8211; though I know that no opportunity existed at the time. But to be so close, yet so far!<\/p>\n<p>Last week at biblestudy another lady in the group had a letter from a family that we both know in Ethiopia. I sat there during the study looking at the Ethiopian stamps on the envelope feeling my chest constricting and realising that even just looking at those stamps was prompting a reasonably strong emotional response in me. Oh dear, I had to get my emotions under control!<\/p>\n<p>I have written back to the lady in Kenya and asked if she can tell me more about their group. I&#8217;d love to know more, and if I find out more, with her permission I look forward to sharing it with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was greeted by an email in my inbox from a lady in the Kenya Guild of Embroiderers in Nairobi. I didn&#8217;t even know that such a guild existed, though I&#8217;m pretty sure that there wasn&#8217;t a similar group in Addis Ababa. The Kenyan group recently had a workshop in Mountmellick embroidery from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-travel","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6221,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}