{"id":952,"date":"2016-01-03T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=952"},"modified":"2016-01-03T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:40:31","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve talked about it here, but a few years ago I began treatment for a thyroid disorder. \u00a0I had had all the classic symptoms: exhausted, freezing, hair loss, memory problems, and weight gain like you wouldn&#8217;t believe. \u00a0Over the course of about 4 years, I&#8217;ve worked with my doctor to find the right levels of medication to get me back to feeling like myself. \u00a0Finally, in July, I think we got to the right point. \u00a0It feels like almost suddenly I&#8217;m doing all sorts of things that I remember doing but for a long time couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do. \u00a0I&#8217;ve read more books in the last 6 months than I think I did in the last 2 years. \u00a0And now I want to really get back to knitting again.<\/p>\n<p>I had done some cold sheeping while I was unemployed, but the knitting and the spinning weren&#8217;t happening except when i felt they really needed to, such as for gifts. \u00a0So, thankfully, lots of yarns hasn&#8217;t been coming in, but it also hasn&#8217;t really been getting used. \u00a0I&#8217;ve decided that this year I should try to keep myself knitting on a regular basis. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to do that by making up a personal sock club &#8212; one set of yarn and pattern for each month.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rabbitch Toe Jam sock yarn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/99775886@N00\/2648004761\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3174\/2648004761_d960de443c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbitch Toe Jam sock yarn\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I&#8217;m going to start by concentrating on a pair of socks I started for the husband back in August but hadn&#8217;t really been working on. \u00a0Thus, my January sock club is a pair of Thuja socks knit out of\u00a0Rabbitworks Fibre Studio Toe Jam (70% Merino 30% Silk) in The Gathering Storm. \u00a0The fun and excitement will come when I try to figure out how I did the heel on the first sock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve talked about it here, but a few years ago I began treatment for a thyroid disorder. \u00a0I had had all the classic symptoms: exhausted, freezing, hair loss, memory problems, and weight gain like you wouldn&#8217;t believe. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=952\">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":[4,43],"tags":[389,390,305,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}