{"id":510,"date":"2010-05-02T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-05-02T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:00:58","slug":"the-woe-of-the-left-sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"The Woe of the Left Sock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-512\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-512\" title=\"(2 of 2)\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2-of-2-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2-of-2-600x399.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2-of-2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2-of-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My knitting has stalled.\u00a0 Motivation is fleeting.\u00a0 Guilt has descended.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m suffering from Left Sock Syndrome.\u00a0 No, it was not stolen by dryer nymphs, (yes, they DO exist).\u00a0 It has yet to be knitted!\u00a0 You see, like many knitters who have come before me, I love knitting the first sock!\u00a0 I get really jazzed about re-learning how to turn the heal, and enjoy looking up kitchener stitch for the 8 gazillionth time, and I rejoice and feel all proud of myself when the sock is done!\u00a0 &#8230;.and then it sits in the bag for a month.\u00a0 Or two. Snuggled right next to my teeny tiny sock needles and yarn.\u00a0 Now, if I was more disciplined, or listened to the millions of knitters out there who are wiser and more experienced than I, I would have cast on the\u00a0 stitches for the second sock <strong>as soon as<em> <\/em><\/strong>I finished the first one!\u00a0 And I tried, I really did, but it was late, and I got a knot in my yarn and I had to rip out the cast on stitches&#8230;.and so there is no left sock.\u00a0 I plan on starting it today, at least getting the stitches cast on, so that I can finish the silly things and move on to other patterns.\u00a0 ::sigh::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting has stalled.\u00a0 Motivation is fleeting.\u00a0 Guilt has descended.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m suffering from Left Sock Syndrome.\u00a0 No, it was not stolen by dryer nymphs,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=510\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Woe of the Left Sock!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}