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<\/p>\nThere’s one upside to being sick, and it’s this: I’m getting a ton of knitting done.<\/p>\n
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At the state fair in August, we all made a pact to enter something in next year’s competition. We don’t have to win, just enter. I’m not sure why, exactly; it’s definitely funny. At any rate, this is what I’m entering. It’s Girasole by Jared Flood<\/a>, quite possibly the best knitting designer ever.<\/p>\n Last night, I took a bath and started to feel better. I’m reading The Coming Plague<\/em><\/a>, and learning about Ebola and the flu epidemic of 1918 that killed about half the world’s population (I may be exaggerating) kind of puts a half-assed cold in perspective. (Also, it’s weird that I ended up reading about the same area in Sudan in two books at the same time: What is the What<\/em> covers that, too.) This morning, the sickness has taken up residence in my lungs. I feel fine otherwise, but when you can’t get enough oxygen, it puts a damper on scrambling the two blocks to work when it’s -8 outside.<\/p>\n In more pleasant news, I’m going to be sitting on a beach in the Caribbean in a month. And it will be glorious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s one upside to being sick, and it’s this: I’m getting a ton of knitting done. At the state fair in August, we all made a pact to enter something in next year’s competition. We don’t have to win, just enter. I’m not sure why, exactly; it’s definitely funny. At any rate, this is what …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-sick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-jo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}