{"id":346,"date":"2002-07-17T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2002-07-17T23:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2008-02-15T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:27:32","slug":"beads-beads-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/07\/17\/beads-beads-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"Beads, beads, beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s a bit like knitting, i&#8217;d imagine. i can sit on the sofa with a handful of beads and wire and pliers, and the hours vanish into each other. <em>loop, insert, loop, stretch.<\/em> the repetition is relaxing, even soothing, and i forget i&#8217;m doing anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>unlike painting with watercolors or tending a garden, i know exactly the way it will turn out because it&#8217;s how i planned it. if i make a mistake, i just chomp through the wire and start again.<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s something beautiful and comforting about that.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/scoopedup.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nthis is my latest creation. i call it sherbet.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/bed.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nthe polka-dotted bead is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/neck.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nit&#8217;s heavy around my neck, but i&#8217;m getting used to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s a bit like knitting, i&#8217;d imagine. i can sit on the sofa with a handful of beads and wire and pliers, and the hours vanish into each other. loop, insert, loop, stretch. the repetition is relaxing, even soothing, and i forget i&#8217;m doing anything at all. unlike painting with watercolors or tending a garden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}