{"id":199,"date":"2008-04-16T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-04-07T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T00:05:06","slug":"things-i-learned-from-knitting-whether-i-wanted-to-or-not-by-stephanie-pearl-mcphee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/things-i-learned-from-knitting-whether-i-wanted-to-or-not-by-stephanie-pearl-mcphee\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not) by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/things-i-learned.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not) by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/things-i-learned.jpg?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Things I Learned from Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not) by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>This little book is filled with essays on life lessons, often learned the hard way, as shown through the craft and art of knitting. <em>Things I Learned from Knitting<\/em> is sharp and funny, written with a dry sense of humor and underlined with truth and generosity. Stephanie, a self-described knitting humorist and philosopher, has been a long-time presence on the internet with her very popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> where she&#8217;s known as the Yarn Harlot.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of Stephanie&#8217;s observations that are true in life as well as knitting include:<\/p>\n<p>-Babys grow<\/p>\n<p>-Beginning is easy, continuing is hard<\/p>\n<p>-Everything is better so long as it&#8217;s happening to someone else<\/p>\n<p>-Idle hands are the devil&#8217;s workshop<\/p>\n<p>She also includes a list of the health benefits of knitting, what to do if the airline won&#8217;t let you fly with your knitting needles and 5 reasons why knitting is better than video games, all delivered with tongue firmly in cheek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little book is filled with essays on life lessons, often learned the hard way, as shown through the craft and art of knitting. Things I Learned from Knitting is sharp and funny, written with a dry sense of humor and underlined with truth and generosity. Stephanie, a self-described knitting<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/things-i-learned-from-knitting-whether-i-wanted-to-or-not-by-stephanie-pearl-mcphee\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}