{"id":1461,"date":"2011-03-09T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/our-sleepyhead\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:04:25","slug":"our-sleepyhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/our-sleepyhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Our sleepyhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I-2527m-comfy.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I-2527m-comfy-300x205.jpg?resize=320%2C218\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night and the night before, my husband pointed out Bisou soundly sleeping on our couch. She spends quite a bit of each evening dozing, then comes to find me when she decides it&#8217;s really bedtime. Then she settles herself on the foot of the bed, where she remains until morning brings wild &#8220;zoomies&#8221; and ecstatic bouncing at the thought of another day. What a character! But isn&#8217;t she just adorable?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3348.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3348-300x285.jpg?resize=320%2C303\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Today I finished sewing all of my Drunkard&#8217;s Path blocks together, so now they&#8217;re ready for me to sandwich and quilt. I thought about adding a border, but I really think borders might detract from the pattern and even stop the movement I get from it. What do you think?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I still need to decide what color binding to use, too, though I think I&#8217;ve decided on thread color and \u2014 mostly \u2014 quilt motifs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night and the night before, my husband pointed out Bisou soundly sleeping on our couch. She spends quite a bit of each evening dozing, then comes to find me when she decides it&#8217;s really bedtime. Then she settles herself on the foot of the bed, where she remains until morning brings wild &#8220;zoomies&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769,"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":[303],"tags":[22,204,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"tag-bisou","9":"tag-drunkards-path","10":"tag-piecing-2","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/I-2527m-comfy.jpg?fit=640%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2663,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/happy-birthday-bisou\/","url_meta":{"origin":1461,"position":0},"title":"Happy birthday, Bisou!","author":"Sandy","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is Bisou's (pronounced Bee-zoo) birthday and she's\u00a0nine\u00a0now! 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