{"id":3254,"date":"2017-10-26T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T01:31:20","slug":"pumpkins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/pumpkins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Okay, maybe just part<\/em> of a pumpkin at this point. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve begun my next quilt, which is an embroidered project designed by Claudia Dinnell<\/a>. This one will be a Halloween quilt, but it certainly won’t be finished for this Halloween. LOL! Still, there’s always next year. I don’t actually do anything for Halloween, but this design is awfully cute, so I decided to go ahead with it. Stay tuned ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, maybe just part of a pumpkin at this point. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve begun my next quilt, which is an embroidered project designed by Claudia Dinnell. This one will be a Halloween quilt, but it certainly won’t be finished for this Halloween. LOL! Still, there’s always next year. I don’t actually do anything for Halloween, but […]<\/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":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Qu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5040,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/home-from-paducah\/","url_meta":{"origin":3254,"position":0},"title":"Home from Paducah","author":"Sandy","date":"May 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"No, not me! ;) But my quilt is home! 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