{"id":8768,"date":"2016-12-13T06:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:45:47","slug":"start-the-day-with-some-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2016\/12\/13\/start-the-day-with-some-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Start the day with some embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5732\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5732\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sunrise0330.jpg\" alt=\"A glorious sunrise\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5732\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sunrise0330.jpg 400w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sunrise0330-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sunrise0330-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glorious sunrise<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I recently read an article I really loved. <a href=\"http:\/\/craftindustryalliance.org\/morning-makes-start-day-creating-not-consuming\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/craftindustryalliance.org\/morning-makes-start-day-creating-not-consuming\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did I love it so much? I am a morning person. I generally wake much earlier than I would like to, and stay in bed until it seems a reasonable time to actually get up. Then I go to my computer and read my emails to see if there are any from the UK or US (time-zones quite different to here) that I need to respond to.<\/p>\n<p>After reading the article I decided that I would spend the first 15 minutes of each day (as often as I can) doing some embroidery. So far, I&#8217;ve done it four days.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say that it puts me in a more creative frame of mind. However, it does get a chunk of embroidery done each day, in time that I would probably otherwise waste on something not nearly so productive. It is a calm and meditative way to start the day, and I have found that I&#8217;ve quite enjoyed starting like that.<\/p>\n<p>I will be continuing this, when possible, which I hope is most days! Do you already do something like this? What do you like about it? If you don&#8217;t already, perhaps it is something you could try too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-5732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A glorious sunrise<\/p>\n<p>I recently read an article I really loved. http:\/\/craftindustryalliance.org\/morning-makes-start-day-creating-not-consuming\/<\/p>\n<p>Why did I love it so much? I am a morning person. I generally wake much earlier than I would like to, and stay in bed until it seems a reasonable time to actually get up. Then I go to my [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-making-stuff","category-white-threads","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","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=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}