{"id":61,"date":"2008-08-19T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=61"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T22:58:00","slug":"a-left-handed-a-ha-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/08\/19\/a-left-handed-a-ha-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"a left-handed a-ha! moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I had an &#8220;a-ha!&#8221; moment yesterday. I was reading on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/t.cgi?a=470294\">Anything Left Handed<\/a> website, that many left handers think that they have adapted to the right handed world, but when they try truly left handed products, life is so much easier for them. Conversely, when right handed people use left handed products they find out how difficult it is for left handed people to use right handed products.<\/p>\n<p>There was some info about left handed scissors, and how when using right handed scissors, left handed people don&#8217;t have the same control or dexterity as right handed people. I was thinking about how when cutting anything paper or cardboard, I automatically want to use my craft knife rather than scissors. I find that I have infinitely more control of a knife than scissors. (At uni I studied Graphic Design. One of my lecturers was so impressed with my cutting skills in my model-making subject that she nicknamed me &#8220;tricky fingers&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>It made me wonder whether if I used left handed scissors, maybe I would find cutting MUCH easier? Is that why I have always preferred using a knife rather than scissors, wherever possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I had an &#8220;a-ha!&#8221; moment yesterday. I was reading on the Anything Left Handed website, that many left handers think that they have adapted to the right handed world, but when they try truly left handed products, life is so much easier for them. Conversely, when right handed people use left handed products [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-left-handed-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}