{"id":563,"date":"2015-02-19T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2015-02-19T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:08:11","slug":"day-off-with-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/day-off-with-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Day off with the kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, half term. A day off with no school run, but two small people to entertain all day.<br \/>\nT took control of the tablet this morning and did some major work on his mixel collection, creating some really rather creative Lego bits and pieces. J has discovered scissors, so we spent some time clearing up many scraps of paper from around the living room.<br \/>\nI was determined to do a bit of spinning, but the kiddies weren&#8217;t really very supportive.<br \/>\nWe went out for a walk, fully kitted out in waterproofs. J spectacularly face-planted twice, getting covered in mud and scratching her brand new glasses.<br \/>\nThis evening, after a plateful of courgette fritters, I managed a decent amount of spinning, nearly filling the first bobbin of some Jacob tops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wpid-wp-1424387166944.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1424387166944.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/wpid-wp-1424387166944.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first step in my spinning project: to have two full bobbins to ply, then knit something out of it to see what it is like.<br \/>\nIn knitting news, I&#8217;m nearly at the top of the first Fish Lips Kiss Heel sock. Oh, and a large box of Millamia yarn arrived today, ready for a secret project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, half term. A day off with no school run, but two small people to entertain all day. T took control of the tablet this morning and did some major work on his mixel collection, creating some really rather creative Lego bits and pieces. J has discovered scissors, so we spent some time clearing up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,36,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spinning","category-spinning-project","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}