{"id":1414,"date":"2012-01-16T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/retreat\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:21:08","slug":"retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve just spent a few days at a retreat I’d never before attended, and it was great! It was a smallish retreat (compared to some), with only about four classes each day, but it was so well organized that I was really impressed. Our rooms were very nice, and breakfast and lunch were provided, as was a neck wallet, complete with notepad and pens for jotting down information. <\/div>\n

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My friends (there were four of us) and I took only two classes each, one of which we all took together. That one, a curved piping class with Susan Cleveland, was well worth the trip all by itself! I really enjoyed that entire day, especially. <\/div>\n
Can you picture yourself spending a day quilting while looking at this view out of the window? Pretty nice, isn’t it? \ud83d\ude42 I’ll post a photo of my project from Susan’s class as soon as I’ve finished the top.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just spent a few days at a retreat I’d never before attended, and it was great! It was a smallish retreat (compared to some), with only about four classes each day, but it was so well organized that I was really impressed. Our rooms were very nice, and breakfast and lunch were provided, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[299],"tags":[200,217,224],"class_list":{"0":"post-1414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-classes","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"tag-travel","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0053.jpg?fit=1024%2C765&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-retreat","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1412,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/another-top\/","url_meta":{"origin":1414,"position":0},"title":"Another top","author":"Sandy","date":"January 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At the retreat I mentioned recently, I took a second class. 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