{"id":191,"date":"2005-05-18T15:21:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/191"},"modified":"2005-05-18T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T21:39:16","slug":"famoose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/191","title":{"rendered":"Famoose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey &#8211; you know what&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> a good idea? Shoving metal into your old piercing hole without a large tube of Neosporin around. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/185\">cute for a day<\/a>,   and then it got unhappy. So it&#8217;s out again, Mom.<br \/>\nI <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/sets\/350740\/\">posted the first seven completed swatches <\/a>I knit for the master program on Flickr. I also posted the pictures I took of the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/sets\/350787\/\">yarn I Koolaid dyed<\/a>. It was really easy &#8211; and all the pigment was sucked into the yarn,<br \/>\n  leaving the water clear. That was my favorite part.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to post a comment about the swatches,<br \/>\n  if ye have any knitting expertise. That means not you, Jake. You are to only make <a href=\"http:\/\/badknittingpun.blogspot.com\">knitting puns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23527133@N00\/14539869\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos11.flickr.com\/14539869_08e01a7300_m.jpg\" alt=\"Echo the Counselor\" width=\"240\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Did I ever tell you about the time I was a Girl Scout camp counselor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlecloud.org\/camplittlecloud.html\">Camp Little Cloud<\/a> in Epworth,<br \/>\n  Iowa? NASA had just discovered that the astronauts they were going to be recruiting for a Mars trip were approximately 9-11 years old, and pushed a big science\/math initiative. I was trained by NASA scientists\/educators on how to teach neat Mars\/space\/planet facts to kids. The photo is from our big field day. I was in charge of the baking soda\/vinegar volcano that also doubled as a multi-layered, multi-colored homemade playdough mountain that we took rainbowalicious core samples of with straws!<\/p>\n<p>Now I get NASA calling me on the horn all the time for model release forms so they can publish photos for educational material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey &#8211; you know what&#8217;s not a good idea? Shoving metal into your old piercing hole without a large tube of Neosporin around. It was cute for a day, and then it got unhappy. So it&#8217;s out again, Mom. I posted the first seven completed swatches I knit for the master program on Flickr. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-sonya-fact"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}