{"id":68,"date":"2008-10-06T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-10-06T04:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T04:32:00","slug":"mountmellick-embroidery-in-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/10\/06\/mountmellick-embroidery-in-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountmellick embroidery in a novel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SOmWnKh8V6I\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/j0YwKXX5f10\/s1600-h\/4125BE3Z3VL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SOmWnKh8V6I\/AAAAAAAAAG4\/j0YwKXX5f10\/s400\/4125BE3Z3VL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253896039890180002\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately. Today&#8217;s book is Kate Grenville&#8217;s &#8220;The Idea of Perfection&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been quite enjoying its portrayal of a sleepy little Australian country town. One of the main characters is a museum consultant, in town to help the locals set up their own heritage museum.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to the bit where the consultant is at a meeting for the heritage society, and the locals have brought along things from home to show to her. The first person brings along a tablecloth made and embroidered by her mother, with &#8220;some very ornate Mountmellick Work in the central medallion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mountmellick embroidery in a novel! \ud83d\ude42 Woo Hoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately. Today&#8217;s book is Kate Grenville&#8217;s &#8220;The Idea of Perfection&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been quite enjoying its portrayal of a sleepy little Australian country town. One of the main characters is a museum consultant, in town to help the locals set up their own heritage museum.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to the bit where [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountmellick-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}