{"id":2745,"date":"2015-08-04T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2015-08-12T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:12:31","slug":"tah-dah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Tah Dah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2746\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 350px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Shirt-19-seersucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Shirt-19-seersucker.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"350\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirt #19 (seersucker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With much self-prodding and refusal to accept my own excuses, I&#8217;ve finished Shirt #19.\u00a0 It&#8217;s blue\/white seersucker with blue buttons, chevron pocket and contrasting collar back and stand.\u00a0 It has a sharks tail collar.\u00a0 Jacob is expected to visit this weekend so will try on this slightly altered pattern for fit.\u00a0 If this one suits him, I&#8217;ll make several more from seersucker fabric newly added to my stash.\u00a0 If it doesn&#8217;t fit, I&#8217;ll tweak the pattern again and make another.<\/p>\n<p>Though the past two shirts haven&#8217;t fit perfectly to his liking, they are still very wearable and fit better than any off-the-rack shirt.\u00a0 He likes them and wears them so nothing lost.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve received news this week of DH&#8217;s sister&#8217;s passing.\u00a0 She died last November but since she was estranged from her family, we only heard of the death when a family member found the obituary on the Net.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing how close, blood relatives can drift so far apart.\u00a0 I&#8217;m saddened by the news but not surprised as she chose to live without family contact.<\/p>\n<p>It remains blinding hot here and I expect it to continue until at least mid-September.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve begun discussing the possibility of planting a cool-weather garden in a month or two but it&#8217;s hard to consider with temperatures reaching 105\u00b0F each day.\u00a0 We&#8217;re also not sure if DH&#8217;s health and side effects from treatments will allow him to operate our heavy tiller.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll just hope for the best and take what we get one day at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 This shirt fits perfectly and with recently increased exercise, the past two shirts fit too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With much self-prodding and refusal to accept my own excuses, I&#8217;ve finished Shirt #19.\u00a0 It&#8217;s blue\/white seersucker with blue buttons, chevron pocket and contrasting collar back and stand.\u00a0 It has a sharks tail collar.\u00a0 Jacob is expected to visit this weekend so will try on this slightly altered pattern for fit.\u00a0 If this one suits<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2745\"> (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":[11,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}