{"id":714,"date":"2016-02-04T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2016-02-04T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:48:09","slug":"update-on-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/update-on-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/MMD-2016-Reading-Challenge-768x994.jpg\">reading challenge<\/a> I mentioned last month?<br \/>\nAfter a trip to the library this afternoon, I have completed one of the challenges.<br \/>\nA book you can read in a day &#8211; <em>According to Yes<\/em> by Dawn French, a very funny novel, with some of the best swearing I have read. It has something to say about families and how easy it is to become disfunctional.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also continuing to rack up the re-reads, in the absence of knitting. I&#8217;m on the fourth installment of Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s Outlander Series, having begun from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>My thumb has got worse again this week, so I&#8217;ll be back off to the doctor again soon. However, I&#8217;ve been doing a very small amount of practice at continental knitting, which doesn&#8217;t involve moving that thumb very much at all. I bought a very useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/class\/knit-faster-with-continental-knitting-color-and-texture\/10194?_ct=sbqii-sqjuweho-dum&#038;_ctp=17&#038;rceId=1454629393424~yfnxfj4p\">craftsy class<\/a> that shows exactly how to hold the yarn and move the fingers.<\/p>\n<p>I keep adding to the list of things I shouldn&#8217;t do because it aggravates the tendons. Today I added &#8220;clean stove&#8221;: a great excuse to avoid housework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the reading challenge I mentioned last month? After a trip to the library this afternoon, I have completed one of the challenges. A book you can read in a day &#8211; According to Yes by Dawn French, a very funny novel, with some of the best swearing I have read. It has something to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-reading-challenge","category-reading","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}