{"id":28486,"date":"2016-07-07T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=28486"},"modified":"2016-06-17T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:13:02","slug":"why-knot-by-philippe-petit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/why-knot-by-philippe-petit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Knot? by Philippe Petit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=995170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28527\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28527\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/whyknot.jpg?resize=320%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"whyknot\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Did you hear\u00a0about the high-wire artist named Philippe Petit who walked between the twin towers in New York City in 1974? A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.5&amp;cn=241118\" target=\"_blank\">documentary<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.5&amp;cn=1158410\">movie<\/a> and several\u00a0stories have been written about him, including the Caldecott award-winning\u00a0children&#8217;s book by Mordecai Gerstein entitled <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.5&amp;cn=510448\" target=\"_blank\">The Man Who Walked Between the Towers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em> All of these are fascinating and captivating and I recommend them to you wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0book is different in that it is written\u00a0<em>by<\/em> him. It is called <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.5&amp;cn=995170\" target=\"_blank\">Why Knot?\u00a0How to Tie More Than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving, and Secure Knots!<\/a><\/strong><\/em> It isn&#8217;t about Petit&#8217;s high wire walk between the World Trade Center towers &#8211; or any other\u00a0of his\u00a0wire walks, for that matter &#8211; though he does mention them. Petit reveres the two hundred knots he has mastered (of the four thousand purported to be in existence) as his &#8220;guardian angels.&#8221; And as the subtitle suggests,\u00a0he\u00a0teaches\u00a0his readers\u00a0a knot for every occasion. Have an upcoming\u00a0wedding to attend?\u00a0There&#8217;s a knot for that!<\/p>\n<p>His enthusiasm for the topic is contagious. Whether you\u00a0are into boating, rock climbing, quilting, animal husbandry\u00a0or\u00a0you don&#8217;t have time to engage in any of these pastimes because\u00a0you find yourself constantly chasing around children whose shoelaces always seem to come untied, this book will be useful to you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you hear\u00a0about the high-wire artist named Philippe Petit who walked between the twin towers in New York City in 1974? A\u00a0documentary, a\u00a0movie and several\u00a0stories have been written about him, including the Caldecott award-winning\u00a0children&#8217;s book by Mordecai Gerstein entitled The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. All of these are<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/why-knot-by-philippe-petit\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[3625,3624,3623],"class_list":["post-28486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-high-wire-walker","tag-knots","tag-tying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7ps","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28486\/revisions\/28589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}