{"id":3374,"date":"2016-09-25T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2016-09-25T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:46:56","slug":"t-shirt-rug-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"T-shirt rug progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed a visit with son Jacob recently.\u00a0 He&#8217;s so unique <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tshirt-rug-progress-092516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3376\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tshirt-rug-progress-092516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a>and interesting and I so much enjoy his company.\u00a0 He&#8217;s my favorite person in all the world to cook for or make things for.\u00a0 He truly seems to appreciate me.\u00a0 The only drawback is when he leaves, the house is even more empty and it takes a little while to get accustomed to it again!\u00a0 Even the dogs miss him!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve continued to work on the rug made with DH Bob&#8217;s old tshirts.\u00a0 Amazingly, it doesn&#8217;t matter how stained or worn the shirt, the strips look pristine when twined into the rug. Many of the shirts featured large advertisements but because of the properties of tshirt knit, the strips tend to turn inside out, showing only the shirt color and not the logos or themes.\u00a0 I really like the way it&#8217;s progressing and Jake really likes it too.\u00a0 He&#8217;s making plans for it&#8217;s location at his home.\u00a0 The rug should be finished by the time he returns for another visit (which I hope is VERY soon!).<\/p>\n<p>With the passing of the first day of Autumn, I can&#8217;t help but think of upcoming holidays.\u00a0 It will be so different without the hubster.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to begin building new traditions without turning my back on the old ones.\u00a0 Maybe this year I&#8217;ll enjoy ribeye steaks for Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>This old dog is learning new tricks!<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed a visit with son Jacob recently.\u00a0 He&#8217;s so unique and interesting and I so much enjoy his company.\u00a0 He&#8217;s my favorite person in all the world to cook for or make things for.\u00a0 He truly seems to appreciate me.\u00a0 The only drawback is when he leaves, the house is even more empty and it<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3374\"> (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":[11,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374"}],"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=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}