{"id":15164,"date":"2021-12-10T19:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:38:44","slug":"daily_2512_-_bigfoot_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/daily_2512_-_bigfoot_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2512 &#8211; bigfoot socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2512_socks.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI knit socks during meetings where I&#8217;m mostly a passive participant, to help me remain focused and not just zone out or get distracted by reddit or something. At one point I told my teammates, in case they were wondering about my unusual movements.<\/p>\n<p>One of them jokingly said something about knitting a pair for him next. Size 46. Well, joke&#8217;s on him, because he&#8217;ll be getting a pair of woollen socks for Christmas, in a nice self-striping yarn with a goodly proportion of dark Urb-it green in it.<\/p>\n<p>Size 46 is huge. It&#8217;s going to be hard to get the sizing right because I have no feet of that size available to try the socks on. Eric has size 42 and that&#8217;s what a pair of normal adult male feet look like in my mind. The step from his feet to size 46 is as large as the step from Adrian&#8217;s 11-year-old feet to Eric&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m doing this rather last minute as usual. But I&#8217;ve got the entire weekend ahead of me still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knit socks during meetings where I&#8217;m mostly a passive participant, to help me remain focused and not just zone out or get distracted by reddit or something. At one point I told my teammates, in case they were wondering about my unusual movements. One of them jokingly said something about knitting a pair for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}