{"id":674,"date":"2009-08-11T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T23:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-08-11T16:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T23:50:19","slug":"in-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"In preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/3478448128\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Rappongi\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3620\/3478448128_869980cd72_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re taking a trip to Japan in a couple of months and my sister is graciously letting us stay with her.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also been great with suggestions of things to do.\u00a0 The best part is we&#8217;ll get to partake of her sushi equity and the sushi chef has even offered to take us with him to his fish market.<\/p>\n<p>So, because she liked the other 2 pairs of socks I&#8217;ve knit for her, I thought another pair would serve as a good thank you gift.\u00a0 The last 2 pairs were just plain vanilla socks.\u00a0 This time I wanted to do something a little more exciting, and I settled on Cookie A.&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter06\/PATTmonkey.html\">Monkey<\/a> pattern.\u00a0 The yarn I&#8217;m using is ShubuiKnits Sock in the Rappongi colorway.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity when I found out they had a colorway called Rappongi as both my sister and the Husband have told me of drinking trips to the Rappongi district.\u00a0 I remember something about heading home on the trains as business people are heading into work.\u00a0 The colors are eye-searing pink and orange, and my sister told me she loves it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad that I&#8217;ve started well enough in advance that I shouldn&#8217;t be rushing to finish them before our trip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re taking a trip to Japan in a couple of months and my sister is graciously letting us stay with her.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also been great with suggestions of things to do.\u00a0 The best part is we&#8217;ll get to partake of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[291,219,34,290,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}