{"id":1481,"date":"2013-05-29T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:15:05","slug":"my-mind-is-clean-cuz-i-change-it-so-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"My mind is clean &#8216;cuz I change it so often!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 I realize my last post was written in a fit of frustration and at the time, I truly intended to quit writing blog posts completely.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a change of heart&#8230; mostly because I like having a &#8216;poor excuse for a journal&#8217;.\u00a0 Blog writing also gives me an excuse to not accomplish other things&#8230;. like house cleaning!!\u00a0 I get a thrill when hubby comes into my area, sees me tapping away on my keyboard and says, &#8220;Never mind, I see you&#8217;re writing&#8221;.\u00a0 Thankfully, he doesn&#8217;t read my blog!<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<del><\/del><del>unlikely<\/del> chance you&#8217;ve been here before, you may notice a new theme.\u00a0 The old one was so butchered by WordPress updates and an uncaring theme writer, it became totally unusable.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll use this theme until I figure out I can&#8217;t fix the lack of menu tabs.\u00a0 Hell, free themes are cheap so I can change them as often as I change my mind.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Split-16-quilting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Split-16-quilting.jpg\" alt=\"Split-16 quilting\" width=\"445\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping busy this week with quilting Split-16.\u00a0 I love how she&#8217;s turning out.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve checked with Bob and he&#8217;s made progress on the ribbon design for the border quilting.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to try it but won&#8217;t unroll the quilt in the frame.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll quilt the borders when the body is finished, either in the frame or in a hoop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been working on &#8216;restoring&#8217; my grandmother&#8217;s treadle machine.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll write a longer post about it soon.\u00a0 Today, I&#8217;m busy making home-made pot pies, baking bread and quilting!<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; OK.\u00a0 I realize my last post was written in a fit of frustration and at the time, I truly intended to quit writing blog posts completely.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had a change of heart&#8230; mostly because I like having a &#8216;poor excuse for a journal&#8217;.\u00a0 Blog writing also gives me an excuse to not accomplish other<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1481\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}