{"id":577,"date":"2012-11-07T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:00:57","slug":"uk-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/uk-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"UK 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to the UK for the first time in nine years this past October. My cousin Andy&#8217;s twin baby daughters turned a year old during my visit. I made each of them a stuffed animal for their birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images4.ravelrycache.com\/uploads\/gypsygirl73\/124257703\/uploadedImage_medium2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images4cf.ravelrycache.com\/uploads\/gypsygirl73\/124258029\/uploadedImage_medium2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think they went over well.<\/p>\n<p>It was also my dad&#8217;s birthday during my visit. Dad has Alzheimer&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s been several years since I last saw him, so I wasn&#8217;t sure how the visit would go. But, he recognized me when I first arrived (though later he thought I was his older sister), and went as well as could be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned during this visit: visit more often, so you&#8217;re not moving the entire time, trying to fit in everyone in a short trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went back to the UK for the first time in nine years this past October. My cousin Andy&#8217;s twin baby daughters turned a year old during my visit. I made each of them a stuffed animal for their birthday. I think they went over well. It was also my dad&#8217;s birthday during my visit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}