{"id":3035,"date":"2017-05-24T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:34:12","slug":"off-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/off-to-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the “hospital”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my last post I mentioned that I’d messed up the needle threader on my Bernina 780. After a few attempts to fix it — tentative attempts, for fear of making things worse — I’m going to have to take it in for adjustment. Drat. I hope it will be a fast fix so I can get back to quilting. Yes, I could have resorted to threading the needle the old-fashioned way (like an animal? LOL!), but I have to admit that I prefer using the threader. Does that make me lazy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post I mentioned that I’d messed up the needle threader on my Bernina 780. After a few attempts to fix it — tentative attempts, for fear of making things worse — I’m going to have to take it in for adjustment. Drat. I hope it will be a fast fix so I […]<\/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":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[202],"class_list":{"0":"post-3035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-quilting","7":"tag-bernina","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-MX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3025,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/machine-quilting-practice-installment-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":3035,"position":0},"title":"Machine quilting practice, installment three","author":"Sandy","date":"May 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I've skipped posting a few \"installments\" here on the practice piece I began here and continued here. 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