{"id":17251,"date":"2023-05-30T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17251"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:29:41","slug":"daily_3033_-_the_happiest_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/05\/30\/daily_3033_-_the_happiest_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3033 &#8211; the happiest socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3033_happy_socks.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I first converted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/01\/13\/daily_2546_-_last_years_sock_harvest\/\">making and wearing hand-knitted socks<\/a>, I aimed for colours that would harmonize with other things I was wearing. Then I threw in just a couple of colourful pairs because the yarns looked amazing. For wearing at home, or perhaps to the office on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>Over time I&#8217;ve come to love the crazier socks more and more. The pink ones that at first looked garish now don&#8217;t even stand out any more. The more colour, the happier they make me. (These are made with Zauberball Crazy.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a brand of socks called Happy Socks; Adrian loves them. Mine are even happier.<\/p>\n<p>And I realized after a while that nobody at work cares about the colour of my socks, so now I wear the colourful ones to the office as often as the mood strikes me, without thinking twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first converted to making and wearing hand-knitted socks, I aimed for colours that would harmonize with other things I was wearing. Then I threw in just a couple of colourful pairs because the yarns looked amazing. For wearing at home, or perhaps to the office on Fridays. Over time I&#8217;ve come to love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251","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=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}