{"id":694,"date":"2007-05-16T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=694"},"modified":"2007-05-16T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T13:45:00","slug":"arugh-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2007\/05\/16\/arugh-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Arugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Pffft<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/a2.vox.com\/6a00b8ea0714f21bc000cdf3a9e812cb8f-500pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/a2.vox.com\/6a00b8ea0714f21bc000cdf3a9e812cb8f-500pi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>So I ordered this book, because I read it would have lovely patterns for all sorts of things that&#8217;d be fun to make. The book arrived yesterday and as I paged through, I realized not every pattern has a picture. What kind of knitting instruction book doesn&#8217;t give pictures of the final product?! That&#8217;s like a cookbook without pictures of food! How am I supposed to know if I&#8217;m doing it right without a photo to show me what it is meant to look like? Who made this book!?! What are they thinking?! You don&#8217;t write pattern books without pictures of what you&#8217;re going to be making. Stupid&#8230;<br \/>What it does have pictures of though, are cell phone cozy, beer bottle cozy, a scarf that looks like a snake, a change purse, a regular shoulder purse, poncho, hats, a very long scarf&#8230;and some other things that are not coming to mind right now. But the things I&#8217;d LIKE to try making have no photos. I&#8217;m really kinda annoyed. This is why I&#8217;m only going to buy all future pattern books from bookstores where I can stand and page through them before buying them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pffft So I ordered this book, because I read it would have lovely patterns for all sorts of things that&#8217;d be fun to make. The book arrived yesterday and as I paged through, I realized not every pattern has a picture. What kind of knitting instruction book doesn&#8217;t give pictures of the final product?! That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-knitting","category-lameness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}