{"id":93,"date":"2009-01-14T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=93"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:35","slug":"more-knitting-as-a-subversive-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2009\/01\/14\/more-knitting-as-a-subversive-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"more knitting as a subversive activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my <a href=\"http:\/\/white-threads.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/knitting-as-subversive-activity.html\">earlier post<\/a> from today, I received an email from a friend of mine, Paul. Paul is himself the product of what he calls &#8220;the crafty model mother&#8221;, and obviously has a strong interest in keeping craft activities in the limelight in popular culture (yeah right!).<\/p>\n<p>He commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No doubt you&#8217;ve already caught up on the Herald, but I saw this terribly inspirational piece and thought of the potential for in [your] area. Perhaps the specifics of craffitti is a little crass and a more refined version akin to the notion of activist needlework would be more at home north of Parramatta road. <\/p>\n<p>A short article in the [local newspaper] would be an excellent opportunity to broaden the exposure of a book or two. <br \/>You might need to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/entertainment\/arts\/guerilla-knitters\/2009\/01\/13\/1231608708374.html\">link<\/a> for advice on how to dress for the photo shoot <\/p>\n<p>I particularly enjoyed the last line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glad you think that I should get involved, Paul. Such good advice. Come to think of it, all these squares that I&#8217;ve been knitting for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandcraftsnsw.com.au\/Wrap.htm\">Wrap With Love<\/a> are so passe. After all, rather than helping to keep people warm, I could be doing something REALLY worthwhile, like &#8220;jolting people out of their comfortable reverie&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my earlier post from today, I received an email from a friend of mine, Paul. Paul is himself the product of what he calls &#8220;the crafty model mother&#8221;, and obviously has a strong interest in keeping craft activities in the limelight in popular culture (yeah right!).<\/p>\n<p>He commented:<\/p>\n<p>No doubt you&#8217;ve already caught up [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-threads-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}