{"id":378,"date":"2007-07-20T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2008-01-03T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T03:42:58","slug":"keeping-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/07\/20\/keeping-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/856421439\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1085\/856421439_97d459793f.jpg\" alt=\"Knitting squares\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While my foot is in a cast I&#8217;ve picked up an old knitting project, continuing knitting squares for a blanket. I&#8217;ve done about 6 new ones, and I&#8217;m up to about 42 squares.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve watched a motley collection of DVDs:<\/p>\n<p><em>Casino Royale<\/em> &#8211; a complete waste of time, apart from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4RfRZ7FT9s\">the animation<\/a> at the beginning which was great &#8211; loved the way it played with pattern and card imagery.<br \/>\n<em>Happy Feet<\/em> &#8211; good animation, but crap illogical storyline<br \/>\n<em>Cars<\/em> &#8211; hackneyed if worthy themes, but cool and inventive concepts and animation<br \/>\n<em>Robots<\/em> &#8211; hackneyed if worthy themes, but cool and inventive concepts and animation. Loved all the mechanical ideas.<br \/>\n<em>HP: Goblet of Fire &#8211;<\/em> enjoyable, but so much missing<br \/>\n<em>Starskey and Hutch &#8211; <\/em>thoroughly enjoyable crap &#8211; loved it, much to my surprise<br \/>\n<em>Jindabyne<\/em> &#8211; an uncomfortable but really good film; sustained creepiness; feminist, though that opinion might seem odd. My haunting image is of the hooked trout, about to become the mens&#8217; trophy, powerless and taking its final slow gasps and flaps.<\/p>\n<p>And motley reading? I&#8217;ve just finished re-reading all 6 of the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> books. And Bryce Courtney&#8217;s <em>The Potato Factory<\/em> which I enjoyed though it&#8217;s not great in any sense. And an old Donna Leon. Now I&#8217;m on to <em>The Poisonwood Bible<\/em>. But I expect to go back to Harry when I get my turn with the new one next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my foot is in a cast I&#8217;ve picked up an old knitting project, continuing knitting squares for a blanket. I&#8217;ve done about 6 new ones, and I&#8217;m up to about 42 squares. I&#8217;ve watched a motley collection of DVDs: Casino Royale &#8211; a complete waste of time, apart from the animation at the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,184,68],"tags":[1359,1388,782,778,444],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-craft","category-film","tag-books","tag-craft","tag-films","tag-harry-potter","tag-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}